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Also, insecurity flares again in Beni, with suspected ADF attacks and resulting community protests.
The addition of a beta-lactam antibiotic to daptomycin is associated with improved clinical outcomes in patients with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections (MRSA BSIs), researchers reported yesterday in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
A modeling study that incorporated air movement patterns from farms affected early in the highly pathogenic H5N2 avian influenza outbreak that hit US poultry in 2015 suggests that most affected farms in Iowa may have received airborne virus from farms within and outside the state.
Officials hope the promising treatment findings encourage more patients to seek lifesaving treatment.
In US developments, the CDC confirms 10 more cases, and New York reports a new outbreak in a Mennonite community.
The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and Public Health Vaccines (PHV), LLC, have announced a partnership agreement worth up to $43.6 million to support the development and manufacturing of a Nipah virus vaccine.
In a statement today CEPI said it will fund preclinical studies, clinical studies through phase 2, manufacturing, and an investigational stockpile of the vaccine candidate.
Also, an expert warns the virus could become endemic, and researchers say an already approved drug might help.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) yesterday announced that researchers have started enrolling participants in a phase 1 clinical trial to evaluate immunogenicity and safety of two licensed seasonal flu vaccines given with and without novel adjuvants.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
A new study in BMC Medicine suggests a possible link between antibiotic use and the onset of rheumatoid arthritis (RA).
The report shows a substantial drop in the use of nearly all medically important antibiotics from 2013 to 2017.
Countries in the Americas have reported a 70% increase in the number of measles cases since mid June, according to an update yesterday from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).
A surveillance study of Italian hospitals found improved compliance with surgical antimicrobial prophylaxis (SAP) guidelines over a 6-year period, Italian researchers reported yesterday in the American Journal of Infection Control.
Four times as many children died from Ebola in the past 6 months compared with the previous 6 months.
Middle East healthcare-related outbreaks are occurring more often but are typically small.
An investigation in Cairo has identified vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (VRSA) in camel meat samples and slaughterhouse workers, Egyptian researchers reported in Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control.
Animal health officials in Vietnam reported two outbreaks of highly pathogenic H5N6 avian flu at poultry farms in Ba Ria-Vung Tau province in the country's southeast, VN Express International, a newspaper based in Hanoi, reported today.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) ministry of health will likely record 11 more cases of Ebola today, raising the outbreak total to 2,774, including 1,849 deaths. The death toll has grown by 6 since yesterday.
All outbreak numbers come from the World Health Organization's (WHO's) online Ebola dashboard. DRC officials have not released any reports on the outbreak since Aug 2.
CMS will boost payments for the use of new antibiotics and for treating patients who have drug-resistant infections.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) saw no let-up in Ebola cases over the weekend, reporting 39 new cases, which would boost the outbreak total to 2,763, according to updates from the World Health Organization (WHO) online Ebola dashboard.
Based on data reported for Aug 2, the DRC reported 17 more cases, and for Aug 3 the country reported 12 more infections.
Daily updates from the health ministry resume and detail contact tracing in Goma, where local spread recently began.
