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The arm of a trial involving high-dose chloroquine had to be stopped early.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Originally published by CIDRAP News Apr 23
Today researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, noted a link between frozen produce and outbreaks of norovirus on several cruise ships sailing in Europe and North America last summer and fall. The same cruise ship company was tied to all outbreaks.
"I rightly resisted efforts to provide an unproven drug on demand to the American public," Bright says.
Hydroxychloroquine, with or without azithromycin, was not tied to lower mortality or less need for mechanical ventilation.
France has reported COVID-19 outbreaks at 5,340 nursing homes since Mar 1.
Study reveals a 9.7% death rate in hospital patients—24.5% in those needing mechanical ventilators.
Public campaigns that use "fear-based" messaging to reduce antibiotic use and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) may be more effective if they also contain messages that empower patients to self-manage without antibiotics, UK researchers reported in a study published today in BMC Medicine.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in an update yesterday that it has concluded its investigation into a 10-state outbreak of Escherichia coli linked to contaminated clover sprouts that sickened 51 people, up 12 from the agency's Mar 19 update.
Two deaths in early February in Santa Clara County, California, can now be attributed to COVID-19.
Also, 2 studies explore infection dynamics in patients who show no symptoms.
"Make no mistake, we have a long way to go. This virus will be with us for a long time," says the WHO director.
The World Health Organization (WHO) today provided more details on a yellow fever outbreak in Ethiopia, which it first noted last week in a weekly report from its African regional office.
On Mar 3, the country's health officials reported the first three suspected cases in rural Gurage zone, involving a father, mother, and son in the same household. Samples from two of the three were confirmed as positive.
South Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia are reopening parts of their economies this week and next—earlier than the White House recommends.
Broad-spectrum antibiotics are often given to patients not infected with drug-resistant bacteria.
The global total tops 2.5 million cases, including 175,812 deaths.
At-risk children may be especially affected by COVID-related school closings and other steps.
Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) vaccines in England and Germany have demonstrated safety and immune response in phase 1 trials, becoming the second and third such vaccines to do so, according to studies yesterday in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.
A study in healthcare workers underscores the need for careful screening.
The WHO pushes back on accusations that it didn't warn countries early enough.
