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Scott Gottlieb, MD, announced today that he will resign as commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the coming weeks to spend more time with his family.
With 8 new infections (and 6 more deaths), the outbreak has grown to 897 cases.
Also, the virus sickened four more people in Saudi Arabia over the past few days, three from Riyadh.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today reported 47 more measles cases, raising the total since the first to the year to 206 cases in 11 states. For comparison, the CDC reported 372 cases for all of 2018, the most since 2014.
Affected states are California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Texas, and Washington.
A new report from ReAct and the Dag Hammerskjold Foundation calls for antibiotic resistance to be integrated into the sustainable development agenda.
Pediatric flu deaths have now reached 56, and activity is widespread nationwide.
Prescribing frequency ranges from 19% in Switzerland to 64% in Turkey.
Three new cases lift the outbreak total to 888, and officials say to expect more.
Researchers with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported today in Clinical Infectious Diseases that reductions in antibiotic use, particularly fluoroquinolones and third- and fourth-generation cephalosporins, was associated with a decrease in Clostridioides difficile rates in US acute care hospitals.
Saudi Arabia's health ministry today reported new MERS-CoV case, which involves a 78-year-old man from Afif in the in the central part of the country, according to an update to its epidemiological week 9 report.
An investigation revealed the man had contact with camels before his MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) symptoms began. He is currently hospitalized for his infection.
The WHO said the attacks increase the risk of disease spread and are "profoundly disrespectful."
More than 80% of courses for upper respiratory tract infections, cough, and bronchitis exceeded national guidelines.
The latest data from the European Gonococcal Antimicrobial Surveillance Programme (Euro-GASP) reveal stable levels of resistance to the currently recommended antibiotics for Neisseria gonorrhoeae, according to a report today from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). But high resistance to azithromycin threatens the effectiveness of the treatment regimen, ECDC officials warn.
A larger follow-up on a 2017 study that found an association between repeated doses of flu vaccine containing the 2009 H1N1 strain and miscarriage in pregnant women ruled out the association, researchers reported to federal vaccine advisors yesterday.
The attack is the second to target MSF treatment centers in just a matter of days.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today it has wrapped up its investigation into a Salmonella Concord outbreak tied to tahini imported from Israel after eight cases were confirmed in four states.
Using regional surveillance data, researchers from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and Emory University have determined that patients with carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) infections in the Atlanta metro area transfer between healthcare facilities in similar patterns as Medicare patients, with the exception of a handful of nursing homes.
One MERS transmission event occurred in the ER, then a second patient spurred ICU spread.
The shuttered MSF center has admitted more than 600 people since December, 49 with confirmed infections.
