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Even an epidemic in a far-off country could do major damage to the US economy, experts say.
Low-income nations have a 60% higher risk of infection.
China has reported the world's first known novel H7N4 avian flu infection in a human, according to a report today from Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection (CHP), which based its information on a notification from the mainland's National Health and Family Planning Commission.
Italian scientists this week reported detecting the MCR-1 colistin-resistance gene in 26 Escherichia coli isolates among more than 19,000 Enterobacteriaceae that they tested as part of surveillance efforts in Romagna in northern Italy.
The newly identified molecules, called malacidins, are linked to a family of antibiotics that require calcium for antibacterial activity.
A probe of child flu deaths over 6 seasons found vaccination gaps and a somber reminder that even healthy kids can succumb.
The Trump administration yesterday released its budget proposal for the 2019 fiscal year, and it would cut the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) budget by about $900 million, with some increases for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
The ECDC reports 14,451 cases in 2017, up from 4,643 in 2016. Also, vaccination in Ghana is tied to higher childhood survival rates.
Iraq is battling another H5N8 detection, and in South Korea, H5N6 was found on another commercial farm.
The results of a survey of physicians published today in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology indicate that when treating patients at the end of life, physicians' decisions about continuing antimicrobial use are influenced by many factors.
China has reported another H7N9 avian flu infection, marking only the third case of the sixth wave of illness activity that began in October, according to a report today from Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection (CHP).
"This year is not a pandemic, but the high ILI is a sign of the severity," CDC Director Anne Schuchat says.
A series of papers yesterday in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology by researchers and clinicians with the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) identifies key knowledge gaps and lays out research agendas to address the spread of drug-resistant pathogens in healthcare settings.
With the Winter Olympics just getting under way in South Korea, a norovirus outbreak has sidelined 32 workers, including 21 from the security staff, the Associated Press (AP) reported. Authorities have called in military personnel to help with security.
Increased antibiotic use alters the human microbiome, Martin Blaser says.
Cases are now at 353, an increase of 140 cases from the previous week.
Bavarian Nordic today announced promising findings for a phase 3 study of its smallpox vaccine Imvamune, which compared its efficacy against ACAM200, the smallpox vaccine currently licensed in the United States. Imvamune is a nonreplicating vaccine designed to be safer for use in patients who shouldn't be given the replicating vaccine, such as those with atopic dermatitis or HIV.
A longitudinal study in Papua New Guinea has found that mass administration of antibiotics followed by targeted treatment did not eliminate yaws, researchers reported yesterday in The Lancet. The study also discovered the first signs of resistance in the tropical infection, which causes chronic disfiguring skin ulcers in children in at least 14 countries.
Half of EU nations report that only a third of older adults are vaccinated against flu.
