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Flu markers rose again last week, with disease activity now widespread in 29 states.
TB resistant to at least 4 antibiotics is primarily spreading person to person in South Africa.
In its weekly Zika update, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) yesterday reported only 34 new cases of the mosquito-borne disease in the United States this week, bringing the total to 4,900.
Of those cases, 4,682 are travel-related and 217 were locally acquired. There are 1,347 pregnant women with confirmed Zika in the United States, and 2,885 such women in US territories.
A case report on an immunocompromised patient with prolonged influenza virus in yesterday's Eurosurveillance reveals resistance to two common antiviral drugs and shows how rapidly antiviral resistance can evolve, a finding the authors say highlights the importance of rapid antiviral resistance testing.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
CEPI, a vaccine development partnership, was created in the wake of Ebola.
In some hard-hit areas, sampling of poultry environments in December showed increased virus levels compared with that time in past waves.
In the latest avian flu developments, two European countries confirmed more highly pathogenic H5N8 in wild birds, as India and Niger reported poultry outbreaks from the H5N1 subtype, according to reports to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE). Also, Chile's agriculture ministry yesterday reported a second low-pathogenic H7 outbreak in turkeys.
In addition to widespread H5N8, H5N1 is confirmed in Nigeria and H5N6 in Japan.
A study yesterday in PLoS Medicine shows that the larvicide pyriproxyfen (PPF) greatly reduces the number of adult Aedes mosquitoes, the vector that transmits Zika, yellow fever, and dengue.
New report recommends how to move forward with vaccines and position global health for the next outbreak.
'Unobserved transmission' from asymptomatic carriers may be occurring when physicians aren't looking.
The fast pace of newly reported illnesses during China's 5th wave of illness has already topped last season's total.
Several European countries reported more H5N8 outbreaks several different settings: wild birds, poultry, and even at a zoo.
An expensive type of ultraviolet (UV) light treatment called UVC was associated with a 30% drop in the incidence of infections with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) but did not affect Clostridium difficile rates when used for cleaning hospital rooms between patients, according to a study yesterday in The Lancet.
In recent days the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) announced three more MERS-CoV cases, two in the city of Al Hofuf and one in Najran.
Meanwhile, Florida confirms first local case in weeks, and a study explores post-outbreak prevalence.
The infection, which was resistant or non-susceptible to all available antibiotics, caused the death of a 70-year-old woman.
New reports to the OIE involve avian flu outbreaks in 8 countries.
The US reports widespread flu and 3 pediatric deaths, while Europe is being hit hard.
