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The agency highlights earlier case-contact registration and a drastically lower rate of healthcare-related disease spread.
An investigational drug to treat highly resistant strains of tuberculosis (TB) took another step in the regulatory approval process yesterday.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
"Measles is an incredibly contagious and dangerous disease," HHS Secretary Azar says.
A longer-term study in Niger finds much the same protective effect.
"We get to adapt… and make the response the best we can make it," the WHO's Mike Ryan, MD, says.
Rates of chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, and trichomoniasis—four curable sexually transmitted infections (STIs)—have not declined significantly since 2012, according to a report today from the World Health Organization (WHO). In fact, as many as 1 million diagnoses of these STIs are made each day, representing an enormous public health burden.
A nationwide team of pediatric infectious disease and emergency medicine specialists has developed a new scoring system to identify febrile infants with a low probability of invasive bacterial infection (IBI), according to a paper yesterday in Pediatrics.
"The fact that Congress passed this bill is acknowledgement that health security is national security."
Seventeen new infections and 11 new fatalities raise outbreak totals to 2,025 cases and 1,357 deaths.
Since November 2018, hospitals in the Tuscany region of Italy have reported 350 cases of New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase (NDM)-producing carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE), the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) reported yesterday in a rapid risk assessment.
The groups welcomed new commitments to humanitarian aid, but said a response reset is needed.
Two case contacts have fevers, and 2 nurses who cared for the man also have symptoms.
A coalition of food safety, health, and consumer groups today urged fast-food giant Wendy's to phase out the use of medically important antibiotics in its beef supply chain.
The tick was found on a manicured lawn and in sunny areas, which differs from other tick species.
An ethics committee fine-tuned an earlier vaccine recommendation, clearing its use in pregnant women past their first trimester and lactating women.
Researchers from Vanderbilt University Medical Center have found a dose-dependent association between infant antibiotic exposure and subsequent development of childhood asthma, according to a new study in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
In its regular weekly report on measles, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today reported 41 more illnesses since its update the previous week, boosting the year's total so far to 981 cases. The CDC added that this year's number so far is the highest in the United States since 1992 and the highest since the disease was eliminated in 2000.
The death rate in infected preschoolers is 77%, compared with 57% for other Ebola patients.
Dentists "need to be included in this conversation around antibiotic use."
