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Puppies from Petland pet stores are again implicated in a multistate outbreak of multidrug-resistant (MDR) Campylobacter infections, this time affecting at least 30 people in 13 states, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said yesterday in an update.
Cases have almost tripled in Nigeria compared with 2018 levels, and Mali is also coping with an outbreak.
One more Ebola case has been confirmed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) outbreak, lifting the overall outbreak total to 3,349 cases, according to numbers reflected on the World Health Organization (WHO) online Ebola dashboard. Authorities are still investigating 519 suspected cases.
Also, 1 more patient died from Ebola, putting the fatality total at 2,211.
The Minnesota Board of Animal Health voted unanimously against a mandatory 30-day state lockdown that would have banned shipping deer in and out of captive deer facilities, and instead opted for a voluntary lockdown for the state's 330 deer farmers.
With 8 new infections, outbreak totals have now climbed to 3,348 cases and 2,210 deaths.
In other updates, measles cases are on the rise in the Americas, but showed another decline in Europe.
Today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) British authors offered evidence supporting a long-observed phenomenon of the cold and flu season: Having either a rhinovirus or influenza makes a person less likely to contract the other virus.
San Diego-based biopharmaceutical company Qpex Biopharma today announced it will receive a second round of funding from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) to develop a portfolio of antibiotics targeting antibiotic-resistant gram-negative bacteria.
The grower, in the Salinas, California, growing region, has been linked to 3 separate outbreaks.
Influenza B is still predominant, but H1N1 levels are rising; also, the CDC reports 4 new deaths in kids.
One of the chains involves a patient who has a 2nd Ebola illness, the WHO says.
According to the latest weekly update from the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) today, Pakistan tracked three new cases of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) this past week, while several African and Pacific island nations reported a total of 22 vaccine-derived polio cases.
New research by a team of scientists from the United Kingdom suggests that whole-genome sequencing (WGS) should be considered as an alternative to traditional phenotypic testing for national surveillance of antibiotic resistance.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Study finds that more than 40% of prescriptions were inappropriate.
The study was a head-to-head look at 3 vaccines targeted to seniors against the standard vaccine.
Additional surveillance following a 17-case outbreak in northeastern Germany of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) Klebsiella pneumoniae has revealed 2 additional cases and details on the XDR strain, according to a study today in Eurosurveillance.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC's) Ebola technical committee said there are three new cases of Ebola today, raising the outbreak total to 3,343, and 432 suspected cases are under investigation.
The technical committee, the CMRE, said the death toll now stands at 2,210. Today's cases come from Mabalako and Biena, which had gone 85 days without a new case.
Two weeks ago a top WHO official predicted just such a surge; cases have now reached 3,340.
Sales of medically important antibiotics for food animals rose 9% from 2017 to 2018.
