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The outbreak has grown to 759 infections and 468 deaths and shows no sign of slowing.
Today Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported two new MERS-CoV cases, both in Wadi Al Dawasir, a town in south-central Saudi Arabia.
In an update to its epidemiologic week 5 report, the MOH said the patients were a 44-year-old man and a 62-year-old women, both hospitalized for their MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) infections.
The UK government today published a One Health report on antibiotic use and antibiotic resistance in animals and humans from 2013 through 2017, noting a 40% reduction of antibiotics in food-producing animals and a 9% decline in people.
Partial oral antibiotic therapy may be appropriate for certain patients who have orthopedic infections and endocarditis.
Today's developments push the outbreak total to 752 cases and 465 deaths.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported another case of MERS-CoV today, this time in a man who had contact with camels.
In an update to its epidemiologic week 5 report, the MOH said the patient was a 65-year-old man from Buraydah. He is hospitalized for his MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) infection.
An ad hoc expert panel convened by the UN secretary-general in March 2017 yesterday published guidelines on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and is seeking public input, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced.
Four of the 7 new cases were reported in Katwa, the latest outbreak hot spot.
The genes, including NDM-1, were found in an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean.
A meta-analysis of 15 studies published yesterday in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy concluded that antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) involving pharmacists are effective in decreasing antibiotic prescribing and increasing guideline-adherent antibiotic prescribing by general practitioners (GPs).
Two Middle East countries reported new MERS-CoV cases today, including four in Oman and one in Saudi Arabia, according to separate health ministry announcements.
The outbreak has now claimed 459 lives, and one family has had 21 cases.
Washington Governor Jay Inslee on Jan 25 declared a public health emergency as a step to boost its response to a measles outbreak that has now sickened 34 in the Vancouver area, with 1 case confirmed in King County in the Seattle area.
All 10 US regions are showing elevated flulike illness, and pediatric deaths have reached 22.
With 6 new cases in Katwa, outbreak totals now stand at 721, including 446 deaths.
Saudi Arabia's health ministry today reported two more MERS-CoV cases, both involving men from Riyadh who apparently didn't have exposure to camels or people with known infections.
In its update to its epidemiologic week 4 report, the ministry said the patients, ages 53 and 69, are both hospitalized for their MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) infections.
The Bon Appetit Management Company, which in 2003 became the first US food service company to pledge to reduce antibiotic use in the animals it uses for food, has updated and streamlined its antibiotics policy, which for the first time includes seafood.
The illnesses bring the overall outbreak total to 715, including 443 deaths.
The plan calls for a 10% reduction in antibiotic-resistant infections in people by 2025.
A New York resident who drank raw milk from a Pennsylvania dairy has contracted the nation's third known case of brucellosis caused by the antibiotic-resistant Brucella RB51 strain, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said yesterday in a Health Alert Network (HAN) notice. The previous two illnesses occurred in 2017.
