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Experts are particularly concerned about the increase in sales of medically important antibiotics.
The federal government is for the first time cutting Medicare payments to hospitals that have high rates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Clostridium difficile, according to Kaiser Health News.
In other developments, research teams describe viral levels in semen and thrombocytopenia as a complication.
Also, France, Switzerland, and Poland report more H5N8, and France notes low-path H5N1 and H5N9 avian flu.
The Pew Charitable Trusts has released a set of recommendations for how to ensure more appropriate use of antibiotics in animal agriculture.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported two new MERS-CoV cases in Mecca, one of whom is an asymptomatic household contact, according to separate updates yesterday and today.
TFAH rated 26 states and Washington, D.C., as 6 or lower on a 10-point scale.
Officials in France, the Netherlands, and Iran report more high-path H5N8 avian flu outbreaks.
The World Health Organization (WHO) released two reports today detailing the six human cases of H7N9 in mainland China and one in Macau that were previously confirmed by local officials. All but one patient had direct exposure to live poultry.
In related developments, a pair of WHO updates flesh out the details for 22 infections reported by Saudi Arabia since late November.
H5N8 developments are quickly evolving, with the virus spreading to more countries—some battling other strains—with new incursions into poultry flocks.
Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection (CHP) today announced its first imported H7N9 avian influenza case of the new season, in a 75-year-old man who started having symptoms in Guangdong province in southern China, according to a statement.
The H5N8 avian flu virus sweeping across Europe has now been detected for the first time in Britain.
Investigators with the Colorado Department of Public and Environment and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are reporting community-associated cases of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) in patients without known risk factors.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Yesterday the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) released its epidemiologic survey of Zika virus and said the mosquito-borne illness was on the decline in Mexico but increasing in Anguilla, Paraguay, and Peru. Zika cases in the United States, meanwhile, topped 4,600.
If 1 in every 29 cases go undetected, that could put the annual rate as high as 180,000 cases.
In 3 days Hungary has reported 96 H5N8 outbreaks in poultry.
The fourth wave of H7N9 avian flu infections in China (from September 2015 through August 2016) saw continued geographic spread of the virus, a longer epidemic period, and a higher proportion of case-patients living in rural areas compared with the first three waves, a report today in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) noted.
The data show different rates of defects but shed light on the link between exposure timing and poor outcomes.
