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This season's flu vaccine was from 25% to 52% effective against influenza in Europe, according to interim results published today in Eurosurveillance, based on data from five surveillance systems from groups that looked at mid-season vaccine effectiveness (VE) across Europe.
Two major infectious disease groups voiced strong support of a bill introduced yesterday to strengthen the US government's response to the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
It includes a profile of what such a vaccine would accomplish and the different research areas needed.
The outbreak is centered in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, and Minas Gerais states, with many cases near big cities.
At least 20% of all primary care antibiotics could be classified as inappropriate.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today ended its investigation into a multistate outbreak of Salmonella Montevideo linked to raw sprouts.
A worrisome finding among resistant Salmonella isolates was the Kentucky serovar, of which more than three-quarters were multidrug resistant.
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.
A report on two babies born in the Brownsville, Tex., area with congenital Zika infections showed that testing on their mothers during pregnancy and lab tests on babies don't always match up. Researchers from Driscoll Children's Hospital in Corpus Christi, Tex., where both babies were evaluated and treated, described their findings yesterday in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
In research news, French scientists detect signs of airborne H5N8 on farms.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
