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Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
More than half of physicians in European intensive care units (ICUs) say multidrug-resistant (MDR) infections are a problem in their hospitals, according to a survey published yesterday in Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control.
Local sources say the market linked to the cases sold some live animals and animal organs, raising concerns about zoonotic virus spread.
Along with remaining resistance to vaccination, responders are grappling with an attack on a triage site in Oicha and threats in the Biakato Mines area.
A massive malaria outbreak in Burundi continues, according to the latest update from the World Health Organization's (WHO) African regional office. Since the last update at the end of October, an additional 1.3 million cases and 479 deaths have been recorded, bringing the outbreak total to more than 8.5 million cases.
The findings indicate parents are a major reservoir for Staphylococcus aureus.
Health officials in China are investigating the cause of a pneumonia outbreak in the city of Wuhan in Hubei province that has sickened 27 people and seems to be linked to a seafood market.
A surveillance study of patients in a Veterans Administration (VA) long-term care facility and its affiliated acute care hospital detected the clonal outbreak of a newly recognized Clostridioides difficile strain, researchers reported yesterday in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
Over the weekend and through today, officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) confirmed four more Ebola cases, according to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Ebola dashboard.
After going 63 days with no new cases, the Kalunguta health area now has 4 new infections.
The bankruptcy underscores the financial challenges faced by companies developing new antibiotics
Three more child flu deaths were reported, all from influenza B.
Originally published by CIDRAP News Dec 26
A federal spending bill passed by Congress and signed by President Trump late last week includes millions in additional funds for agencies addressing antibiotic resistance. But funding remained flat for some efforts.
Qatar has reported three more MERS cases to the World Health Organization (WHO), the WHO said yesterday. The three cases are related, and all case-patients are from Doha.
The first case-patient is a 67-year-old woman who developed symptoms of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection at the end of November, and died on Dec 12. The source of her illness is still under investigation.
In a new development, health officials enlisted the help of a resistant pastor to help support response efforts.
Earlier sites of CWD prion transmission in Minnesota have links to cervid farms.
Flu levels continued to rise in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Asia, with some countries reporting higher than normal influenza B activity, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Dec 20 in its latest global flu update.
Officials report new CWD cases in previously unaffected parts of Texas and Montana.
Regulators in Africa are reviewing the vaccine for licensing in at-risk countries.
Influenza B is still outpacing other flu viruses in a season now 6 weeks old.
