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The H3N2 strain, which often causes more severe seasons, continues to predominate.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) yesterday announced that, for now, it won't enforce four rules related to the implementation of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), a law passed in 2011 that signaled the biggest overhaul in the nation's food safety laws in 70 years.
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency, a division of the US Department of Defense, has awarded up to $16 million to VenatoRx Pharmaceuticals for discovery and development of a novel, first-in-class antibiotic for biodefense applications.
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Environment samples tested positive for the "nightmare bacteria," indicating a possible role of cleaning equipment.
A CDC official says though cases are still being reported, the pace of new reports appears to be slowing.
Health officials in Los Angeles County today announced the area's first sexually transmitted Zika case, which involves a male resident who traveled to Mexico and had Zika symptoms in early November and his female partner, who did not travel.
The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) recorded two new cases of MERS-CoV in the past several days.
On Dec 30, a 55-year-old expatriate man from Khamis Mushait was diagnosed as having MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) after presenting with symptoms. He is in critical condition. The man's source of infection is listed as "primary," meaning it's unlikely he contracted the virus from another person.
Scientists in New Zealand are calling for tighter restrictions on the use of fluoroquinolones, according to reporting by the New Zealand Herald.
Also, a study shows that receipt of Dengvaxia may alter the accuracy of dengue tests.
A Malaysian man who recently returned from a religious pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia has been diagnosed as having MERS-CoV.
Intensive care and infectious disease experts from the Antimicrobial Resistance in Critical Care (ANTARCTICA) coalition have released a statement in Intensive Care Medicine calling for increased awareness and action to reduce antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in intensive care units (ICUs).
Flu hospitalizations are also on the rise, with the highest levels in seniors, a pattern often seen in H3N2-dominant seasons.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Dec 11 reported another MERS-CoV infection, in a man from Oman whose asymptomatic case was found during screening when he was transporting camels, some of them infected, into the UAE, according to a Dec 22 update from the World Health Organization (WHO).
Data from high-quality, randomized controlled trials show that bactericidal antibiotics are not intrinsically superior to bacteriostatic antibiotics, researchers from the University of Southern California School of Medicine report in a new paper in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
In response, the FDA said it has already made headway in fixing the problems and will take further steps in 2018.
Milder infections aren't as hard to treat as multi-drug resistant ones and might be easier targets for new therapies.
Federal and state health officials are investigating a multistate Escherichia coli O157:H7 outbreak that has sickened 17 people in 13 states, and preliminary tests by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that the outbreak strain is closely related to one in Canada that has been associated with romaine lettuce.
The outbreaks involved different strains, including H5N6, H5N1, and H5N8.
