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According to an outbreak update from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), officials recorded three more confirmed cases of Ebola yesterday, including one in a patient who died in Butembo, a major city in North Kivu province.
Baloxavir reduced flu symptoms by 1 day and reduced viral shedding.
An Ebola-infected patient died in Butembo, a city of nearly 1 million people.
The spread of bacteria in people, animals, and the environment is a major factor in high resistance levels, new data suggest.
An Emirates Airline flight arriving at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport from Dubai in the United Arab Emirates at about 9 am this morning was held on the tarmac after 100 people were reportedly ill on the flight. According Eric Phillips, press secretary with the New York mayor's office, there were 521 people on the flight, which stopped in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, after it began in Dubai.
Officials confirmed 5 cases in recent days, bringing the outbreak total to 121.
The arrival of the inevitable untreatable cases is being sped up by rising rates of gonorrhea and other STDs.
Both AAP and the CDC, though, support using FluMist with the goal of optimizing vaccine coverage.
An analysis of diagnostic reports from a veterinary clinic in Singapore suggests sick companion pets could be a reservoir for multidrug-resistant bacteria, according to a letter published in Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control.
Saudi Arabia's health ministry reported three new MERS-CoV cases so far in the first days of September, according to a post summarizing activity in epidemiologic week 36.
Of 18 cases, 15 are in Florida; the meat producer has not been named.
A new white paper from the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) advises against routine testing for Clostridioides difficile (formerly Clostridium difficile) infection (CDI) in neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) patients.
One more case has been confirmed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC's) latest Ebola outbreak, in a patient from Beni, the health ministry said yesterday in its latest update.
Goma is the capital of North Kivu province, near the border with Rwanda.
The study provides evidence that population immunity is critical for the successful phase-out of oral polio vaccines.
A systematic review and analysis of available evidence by researchers in the United Kingdom has identified previous antibiotic exposure, underlying disease, and invasive procedures as the top risk factors for antibiotic resistance in humans.
Clinical follow-up of 141 babies born with congenital Zika virus problems who were evaluated at a referral center in Brazil revealed that 67% experienced epilepsy, a prevalence that was higher than the 9% to 50% reported in earlier studies. Researchers from Brazil described their findings today in a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine.
Cases are at 112 (84 confirmed); officials are also tracking 18 suspected cases.
The new data mark a 4th straight year of "steep and sustained" increases.
