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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevent (CDC) today said it is investigating several Salmonella outbreaks totaling 124 cases in 36 states linked to contact with backyard poultry flocks.
In what appears to be an underreported outbreak, officials with Public Health England (PHE) yesterday in Eurosurveillance detailed 118 laboratory-confirmed cases of high-level azithromycin-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae, noting that cases emerged among heterosexuals in Leeds but then spread across England and into networks of men who have sex with men (MSM).
At-risk nations share the Congo River, Bikoro Lake, and porous borders with the DRC.
The guidance is intended for institutions, accreditation and licensing bodies, and policy makers.
Spending public health money on surveillance rather than on broad, expensive genomic surveys of animal diseases is a sounder investment and better way to prepare for the next pandemic or other global health emergency, three infectious disease experts wrote today in Nature.
People who inject recreational drugs are 16.3 times more likely to develop invasive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections than people who do not inject drugs, according to data published today in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports (MMWR).
The report says 6.9 million pounds of critical antibiotics are sold for pig use in a year.
The WHO says clinicians in treatment centers will make decisions on what drugs to use, based on what's most helpful to patients and with patients' informed consent.
The US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) released new data showing that national efforts to reduce hospital-acquired conditions, including adverse drug events and infections, helped prevent an estimated 8,000 deaths and save $2.9 billion from 2014 through 2016.
Adding ultraviolet light to standard room cleaning modestly decreases hospital-wide superbugs.
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) reported six more suspected cases of Ebola, including five in Bikoro and one in Wangata in its latest outbreak update. All of the new cases are known contacts of previously recorded cases.
University of Washington and University of Oxford experts yesterday announced the inclusion of mortality and morbidity data related to drug-resistant infections into the annual Global Burden of Disease Study, part of a new antimicrobial resistance (AMR) project "to provide rigorous quantitative evidence of the burden of AMR, to increase awareness of AMR, to support better surveillance of AMR, and to foster the rat
Of 53 cases, 37 are confirmed, 13 probable, and 3 suspected; deaths remain at 25.
Influenza illnesses can trigger asthmatic episodes that don't respond to treatment.
Health officials in Minnesota and Wisconsin are investigating a Salmonella outbreak linked to frozen breaded chicken products, and Canadian authorities are probing a similar outbreak also linked to the same type of product.
A new study in the Journal of Drugs and Dermatology suggests that a diuretic drug may be as effective as antibiotics for treatment of women's acne.
The view that there is potential benefit and very little risk in taking antibiotics is widespread.
At least 89 people have been hospitalized, 26 with a serious kidney complication.
In an update to its Influenza Risk Assessment Tool (IRAT), the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) yesterday added 2 more viruses, raising the total on the list to 15.
