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Detections vary from H5N1 in India to the confirmation of H5N5 for the first time in Slovenia.
The findings are a sign the gene has spread widely in community and healthcare settings throughout the country.
A review of 4 previous studies shows that solid data on health worker immunization are lacking and highlights the implausability of some of the results.
On the eve of Lunar New Year in China, ringing in the year of the rooster, two of the country's provinces reported new H7N9 avian flu cases, Hunan and Guizhou, according to provincial health department statements translated and posted by FluTrackers, an infectious disease news message board.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Originally published by CIDRAP News Jan 26
Yesterday Brazil's health ministry reported 129 new suspected cases of yellow fever this week, with two more states, Goias and Matto Grosso do Sul, reporting infections. The country now has 550 suspected or confirmed cases of the mosquito-borne disease.
New H5N8 outbreaks, which have affected at least 24 European countries, plus some in Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, were reported in Germany, Italy, Poland, and the UK.
Two phase 3 trials showed that a human mononoclonal antibody cut recurrence about 40%.
With H7N9 cases in China in January already outpacing December's sudden and steep rise, China reported at least two more cases today, according to the latest official reports.
Hong Kong's Center for Health Protection (CHP) today acknowledged two cases reported from Hubei province yesterday, a 65 year-old man and a 78 year-old woman from two different cities, both in critical condition.
More than 90% of Veterans Health Administration (VHA) hospitals have developed written antimicrobial stewardship policies, and the agency's Antimicrobial Stewardship Initiative has cut antibiotic use 12% overall so far, VHA officials noted yesterday in an analysis in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.
Though a UK C diff spike was thought to be caused by dirty hospital rooms, that theory proved unlikely.
The UK reported H5N8 avian flu on a pheasant farm housing 10,000 birds.
The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) today reported a new case of MERS-CoV in the city of Jeddah.
A 48-year-old expatriate man is in critical condition after presenting with symptoms of MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus).The source of his infection is listed as primary, meaning he did not contract the disease from another person.
With novel H7N9 avian influenza cases in China this month already topping an early, steep surge seen in December, two provinces reported four more cases, according to official sources, as US officials posted a travel alert because of the spike in infections.
Many questions remain about how the highly adaptable virus infiltrates farms and spreads.
The number of suspected yellow fever cases in Brazil is climbing quickly, with 421 suspected infections and two more states reporting cases, the health ministry said yesterday in a statement. The case total reflects an increase of 215 cases from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) update on Jan 18.
In addition, Italy reports more H5N8 and Germany has an H5N5 poultry outbreak.
The 111 cases reported in the first half of January have already topped December's total.
Experts say the policy may not have a huge impact and worry about how it's interpreted.
Over the weekend and through today, the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) reported three new cases of MERS-CoV, two of which were linked to camel exposure.
