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The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) last week shared new details about its investigation into H7N3 avian flu outbreaks at turkey farms in North Carolina and South Carolina, one of them involving a highly pathogenic version of the virus.
Priority antibiotics with a high potential for developing resistance are commonly prescribed to older adults in Australia, particularly those with chronic respiratory conditions, but fewer than one fifth of those prescriptions are accompanied by microbiologic tests, researchers reported in BMC Infectious Diseases.
Brisk activity continues in US hot spots, and in Brazil, hospitals in several major cities are nearing collapse after surges of patients.
In the past, such as with 2009 H1N1 flu vaccines, they weren't equitably available.
The arm of a trial involving high-dose chloroquine had to be stopped early.
Trump muses about injecting disinfectants but later says he was using sarcasm.
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.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Originally published by CIDRAP News Apr 23
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.
"I rightly resisted efforts to provide an unproven drug on demand to the American public," Bright says.
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.
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.
Two deaths in early February in Santa Clara County, California, can now be attributed to COVID-19.
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.
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.
