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The Lassa fever outbreak in Nigeria continues this week with 68 new confirmed cases, including 4 deaths, according to the latest weekly update by the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Africa. That's up from 19 confirmed cases the week before.
In research news, French scientists detect signs of airborne H5N8 on farms.
US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD, today weighed in on steps the FDA it taking to improve the effectiveness of seasonal flu vaccines, which includes collaborating with partners at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to use a large database that includes information on flu vaccines given to 4 million people.
After only a handful of reports released earlier this month, Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) confirmed six new cases of MERS-CoV over the weekend.
Recall notice says company's products shipped to Fareway grocery stores in 5 Midwestern states.
Involving ID docs and local pharmacists might be key.
Though ILI has dropped, kids' deaths near 100 and hospital rates are high.
Belgian researchers report that almost a third of prescriptions for fluoroquinolones written for hospitalized children were deemed inappropriate, according to a study today in BMC Infectious Diseases.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Japan's health ministry has given fast-track approval to a new flu antiviral with a different mechanism of action than neuraminidase inhibitors that offers a one-dose treatment option, the Wall Street Journal reported today.
One of the changes involves H3N2, a move that will likely not solve egg-adaptation problems, an expert says.
Days after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said kratom, a plant used as an opioid substitute, was behind a multistate outbreak of Salmonella illness, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that Botany Bay, Enhance Your Life, and Divinity by Divinity Products Distribution of Grain Valley, Mo., agreed to stop selling all products containing kratom, and voluntarily destroyed a high vo
A systematic review of treatments for Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) yesterday in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology concludes that the most cost-effective treatment remains unclear.
After careful deliberation, experts approved the nasal-spray vaccine 12-2.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported two new MERS cases yesterday, and the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that a small healthcare-associated outbreak occurred in Hafar Al-Batin in January.
A study today in Science Translational Medicine describes a new approach to determining the modes of action underlying antimicrobial compounds that could help speed the process of discovering novel antibiotics.
Scientists have identified the genetic basis for an XDR typhoid outbreak in Pakistan.
As researchers work on solving the complex puzzle of all the factors that influence flu vaccine effectiveness (VE), researchers today report that low VE of the H3N2 component during the 2012-13 flu season may have been due to poor immune response rather than adaptations in egg-grown vaccine viruses, as previously thought.
CARB-X, a public-private collaboration that supports companies in early-stage antibiotic discovery and development, recently announced its first funding award for 2018 and provided details about two funding rounds for the current year.
The proposed law would direct $200 million a year for 5 years to research.
