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A large study to assess if a new guideline recommending live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV, or FluMist) for children over age 2 years with asthma found no increase in lower respiratory events following vaccination. A research team from HealthPartners, a Minnesota-based healthcare and insurance provider, published its findings yesterday in Vaccine.
The outbreak has now reached 2,062 infections, with deaths climbing to 1,390.
Children were 5 times more likely to have pertussis if it had been more than 3 years since their last vaccine dose.
Researchers in Scotland report in PLOS Medicine that implementation of an antimicrobial stewardship program (ASP) was associated with large, sustained reductions in the prescribing of three broad-spectrum antimicrobials and in a modest reduction of coliform bacteremia resistance rates.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported 41 more measles cases in the past week, raising 2019's total number of cases to 1,022, a record for the post-elimination era.
"This is the greatest number of cases reported in the U.S. since 1992 and since measles was declared eliminated in 2000," the CDC said today.
The agency highlights earlier case-contact registration and a drastically lower rate of healthcare-related disease spread.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
An investigational drug to treat highly resistant strains of tuberculosis (TB) took another step in the regulatory approval process yesterday.
A longer-term study in Niger finds much the same protective effect.
"We get to adapt… and make the response the best we can make it," the WHO's Mike Ryan, MD, says.
"Measles is an incredibly contagious and dangerous disease," HHS Secretary Azar says.
Rates of chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, and trichomoniasis—four curable sexually transmitted infections (STIs)—have not declined significantly since 2012, according to a report today from the World Health Organization (WHO). In fact, as many as 1 million diagnoses of these STIs are made each day, representing an enormous public health burden.
A nationwide team of pediatric infectious disease and emergency medicine specialists has developed a new scoring system to identify febrile infants with a low probability of invasive bacterial infection (IBI), according to a paper yesterday in Pediatrics.
"The fact that Congress passed this bill is acknowledgement that health security is national security."
Seventeen new infections and 11 new fatalities raise outbreak totals to 2,025 cases and 1,357 deaths.
Since November 2018, hospitals in the Tuscany region of Italy have reported 350 cases of New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase (NDM)-producing carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE), the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) reported yesterday in a rapid risk assessment.
The groups welcomed new commitments to humanitarian aid, but said a response reset is needed.
Two case contacts have fevers, and 2 nurses who cared for the man also have symptoms.
A coalition of food safety, health, and consumer groups today urged fast-food giant Wendy's to phase out the use of medically important antibiotics in its beef supply chain.
The tick was found on a manicured lawn and in sunny areas, which differs from other tick species.
