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In 2 reports, the WHO said most antibiotics in development offer little benefit over existing ones, and too few are truly innovative.
The emergency committee holds off on declaring a public health emergency of international concern.
In a surprising finding, pet ownership and increasing contact with pets may be protective against the recurrence of community-acquired Clostridiodes difficile infection (CDI), researchers from the University of Pennsylvania reported recently in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.
According to the latest situation report published by the World Health Organization (WHO) yesterday, the 15 most recent Ebola cases reported from Jan 13 to 19 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) all came from a known transmission chain and were all recorded in Beni (9 cases) and Mabalako (6 cases).
The man didn't visit markets or have contact with sick patients while in Wuhan.
A Chinese medical community tracking numbers puts China's outbreak total at 321 cases.
A vaccinated health worker is among the 5 new Ebola cases recorded since late last week in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which raise the outbreak total to 3,416, including 2,237 deaths. A total of 394 suspected cases are still under investigation, according to the World Health Organization's (WHO's) online Ebola dashboard.
Imperial College London announced yesterday that it has won a €22.5 million ($25 million US) grant to work with researchers in 15 countries over 5 years to develop a rapid test to diagnose infectious diseases based on personalized gene signatures after taking the next 2 years to develop a library of gene signatures covering common infections and other diseases.
Fourteen health workers are now infected in the 218-case nCoV outbreak.
A surge in the last past 2 days lifts the outbreak total to 198, with 1 new case in Shenzhen.
"We know almost nothing about sexual transmission and prion diseases," one expert says.
Screening will begin at airports in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
With 7 new pediatric deaths, confirmed flu-related deaths in children reach 39.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
More than a quarter of children in US children's hospitals are receiving suboptimal antibiotic therapy, and antibiotic stewardships programs (ASPs) miss a substantial portion of it, according to a study yesterday in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
According to the World Health Organization's (WHO's) online Ebola dashboard, officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) tracked one new case of Ebola today, raising the outbreak total to 3,411, including 2,236 fatalities.
A total of 516 suspected cases are still under investigation, and 119 cases are now deemed probable infections.
Firms say they can't sustain a viable pipeline of products to address antibiotic resistance on their own.
The death in China is the second in the outbreak.
The WHO says 14 cases reported in the past week have all been traced to the same area.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) today reported one more MERS-CoV case recorded earlier this week, the fourth to be reported in January.
