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The WHO says yellow fever continues to march toward Brazil's Atlantic coast.
Genetic analysis of a virus from Uganda revealed that it is 87% identical to MERS-CoV.
Cameroon and Nigeria reported more highly pathogenic H5N1 avian flu outbreaks on poultry farms, and France reported four more H5N8 outbreaks from its hard-hit southwest, according to the latest notifications from the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE).
The outbreak includes 2 healthcare workers who have asymptomatic infections.
Vaccine effectiveness was 65% in preventing deaths in healthy children and 51% in high-risk kids.
Follow-up of women who delivered Zika-affected newborns found that only 1 in 4 received the recommended brain imaging after birth.
Flu activity in many Northern Hemisphere nations continues to decline but shows a mixed picture, with falling levels in Canada and the United States and ongoing disease activity in northern Europe, led by H3N2 and influenza B, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday in its latest global flu update.
A nationwide antibiotic stewardship program (ASP) in Israel led to a reduction in antibiotic use in acute and long-term care hospitals, according to research presented at the spring conference of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA).
The vaccine offers strong protection to infants, especially during the first 2 months of life.
The extract cut the amount of antibiotics needed to kill bacteria by as much as 97%.
Saudi Arabia reported two new MERS-CoV cases over the weekend, including a case in an asymptomatic healthcare worker who contracted the virus in a healthcare setting.
The test could reduce the likelihood of antibiotic-pathogen mismatch by almost 67%.
Inappropriate prescribing was much higher at non-teaching clinics vs teaching clinics.
In a review of recent cases, experts report a shorter time to ICU and death.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
US lawmakers today introduced legislation that would provide a tax credit for new antibiotics and diagnostic tests.
There were six more pediatric influenza deaths reported in the last week, according to today's FluView from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Last week, the CDC reported only two such deaths. So far, there have been 61 pediatric deaths during the 2016-17 flu season.
The products include 3 new classes of small-molecule antibiotics.
Vaccines are unavailable at least once a month, and 19% to 38% of shipments have temperature issues.
A new letter published in the New England Journal of Medicine attempts to explain why Brazil saw fewer babies born with microcephaly in 2016 as compared to 2015, despite more suspected Zika infections. The authors suggest that 2016's second wave of Zika infections could have actually been another flavivirus, such as chikungunya.
