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The antibiotic market is broken, one expert said. "Policymakers must take this as a clarion call to act now."
Today DRC health officials report 9 more cases and 7 more deaths.
Adhering to antibiotic guidelines was associated with favorable outcomes in terms of mortality and length of hospital stay among patients in Norway, according to a study yesterday in Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control.
Enesi Pharma, a biotechnology company based in the United Kingdom, announced yesterday that it has partnered with the US Department of Health and Human Services Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) to develop new flu vaccines using its ImplaVax technology.
Vaccine efficacy was 97.5%, as cases reach 1,264 and deaths top 800.
US cases have climbed to 555 and at the current pace would eclipse 2014's total within weeks.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported a new MERS-CoV case over the weekend in an update to its epidemiologic week 15 report.
On Apr 13, the MOH noted that a 75-year-old woman from Khafji had contracted MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) as a secondary case, meaning likely not from another MERS patient. It's unknown if she had camel contact.
New research presented at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) annual meeting suggests an association between antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and climate change.
Canadian data show that kids under 10 years may be especially vulnerable to the H1N1 strain.
Antibiotics were offered for 91% of UTI patients, but only 36% had clinical or lab evidence of one.
While the WHO defends the decision, some experts question the call—as cases keep mounting.
Case counts climb to 109, making it the 3rd-largest E coli outbeak in 20 years.
Originally published by CIDRAP News Apr 11
An outbreak of 2009 H1N1 seasonal flu in a remote indigenous hill tribe in Laos killed 16 people and triggered a quick response from local health officials in Thailand, according to a report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which also assisted.
MDRO contamination rates ranged from 11.9% to 28.5% across 6 facilities.
About half of all camel salesmen had MERS-CoV antibodies, and Saudi Arabia reports 3 new cases.
A 20-case day follows an 18-case day, and totals have now topped 1,200.
"The anti-vaccine movement is like its own media empire."
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) released a new Zika risk assessment today, concluding that, while transmission has slowed in the Americas, the virus is widespread in Asia.
The assessment was conducted, in part, to update travel guidelines for Europeans visiting a country with endemic Zika or experiencing an outbreak.
Chinese and US researchers report today in Clinical Infectious Diseases that macrolide use is associated with an almost double rate of antibiotic resistance in urethritis caused by Mycoplasma genitalium in men, and a related commentary questions whether it's time for the US and Canada to reconsider macrolides as first-line empiric treatment for men with symptomatic urethritis.
