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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
Influenza illnesses can trigger asthmatic episodes that don't respond to treatment.
Of 53 cases, 37 are confirmed, 13 probable, and 3 suspected; deaths remain at 25.
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.
A Johns Hopkins study has determined that selecting an indication for antibiotics from an evidence-based list as opposed to free-text indications increases the odds that antibiotic agents will be used appropriately, according to a study yesterday in the American Journal of Infection Control.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Some patients are getting inferior antibiotics, the authors say.
The first patient got sick after exposure to camels and their milk, and six others contracted the virus in the household setting.
The Democratic Republic of Congo's health ministry yesterday and today ruled out some suspected cases based on lab tests and confirmed 2 more in the remote Iboko outbreak location, dropping the outbreak total to 50 cases, including 37 confirmed and 13 probable, with no suspected cases. No new deaths were reported, keeping that total at 25.
