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H5N8 has now been confirmed in 40 countries, and South Korean scientists shared genetic findings from a recent H5N6 isolate.
A federal ethics committee that reviewed a research proposal to experimentally infect humans with Zika virus to help gauge the best approach to a vaccine has rejected the application, according to a report posted last week and first reported today by Stat.
The World Health Organization (WHO) issued a statement today reaffirming the need for more research and development on new antibiotics for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB).
So far there's no sign that H7N9 epidemiology is changing for humans, but for poultry, the virus has become more deadly.
A case series of 87 infected babies from Brazil's epicenter finds an 82% rate of microcephaly.
Agency officials say new antibiotics for the identified bacteria are urgently needed.
Egypt today reported two human H5N1 avian flu cases, one of them fatal, according to notifications from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
Few details were reported. One of the cases occurred in Minya governorate and was observed on Feb 1. The fatal case was reported from Faiyum governorate and was observed on Feb 5. Both governorates are in upper Egypt.
Over the 8-year study period MDR bacterial infections increased sevenfold.
Also, UK scientists yesterday reported a novel subclade of the H3N2 strain of influenza.
France reports 68 new H5N8 poultry outbreaks, and Hungary confirms 455,000 affected birds.
A World Health Organization (WHO) working group recently updated its Zika vaccine target profile, a document used to inform vaccine developers, regulators, and other stakeholders. The group published the first version of the profile in July 2016, and the revision takes into account new data from the past 6 months.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) yesterday cleared the expanded use of a diagnostic test for lower respiratory tract infections and sepsis and allowed marketing for a test that can identify organisms that cause bloodstream infections, according to two agency news releases.
China's premier urges officials in affected areas to shutter live-poultry markets.
The first known case of malaria resistant to the essential drug artemisinin was reported yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Spain reported its first highly pathogenic H5N8 avian flu outbreaks in poultry, following two earlier detections in wild birds, and Egypt noted poultry outbreaks involving both the H5N8 and H5N1 strains, according to the latest reports from the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
Officials note new H5N1 outbreaks in India, Laos, Niger, and Vietnam.
Report finds extremely high multidrug resistance in a Salmonella strain that can sicken humans.
A study yesterday in BMC Infectious Diseases shows that critically ill children with tracheal Enterobacteriaceae infection are at risk for multidrug-resistant (MDR) infections.
Flu activity remains elevated throughout much of the world, with the H3N2 variant dominating, according to a new update from the World Health Organization (WHO). The report said the peak of flu activity may be over in parts of Europe and North America, with some countries reporting a slight downward trend.
