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"Not a question of if, but when, and of how many ... will have severe illnesses."
Even COVID-19 pneumonia patients without symptoms have abnormal lung findings on CT, the study found.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported a new MERS-CoV case today. This raises the number of MERS cases recorded this month to 11.
CARB-X announced today that it will award Peptilogics of Pittsburgh up to $2.56 million in funding to develop a new class of peptide antibiotics with broad activity against drug-resistant bacteria.
Also, cases continue to surge in South Korea and Italy, and the US reports more positive tests in evacuees from the Diamond Princess cruise ship.
The JAMA study reveals a 49% death rate in critically ill patients; for a much smaller study it was 62%.
A new study by researchers from Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health suggests that outpatient prescribing of penicillins is associated with rates of mortality with sepsis in older US adults.
After additions of what might be retrospective cases, the World Health Organization's (WHO's) online Ebola dashboard shows a case count of 3,444 today, which represents 11 more cases than the total reported at the end of last week. The death toll now stands at 2,264 in an outbreak that has lasted 18 months in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Korea confirms 379 new cases and 602 overall, and infections in Italy spike to 132.
In other developments, Italy's outbreak expanded and a California city blocked a plan to move evacuees from Travis Air Force Base.
The antibiotics were tied to a 55% increased risk of malformation.
As infections outside of China increase, China's total tops 75,000 cases.
"The day may come when we may need to implement such measures as seen in Asia," a CDC official says.
After a month-long rise, US flu levels dropped last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today in its weekly FluView report. But most regions are still experiencing elevated influenza activity, and 13 more pediatric deaths were recorded, raising the 2019-20 flu season total to 105.
York University this week announced a $2 million grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to support the development of a global network to address infectious disease and antimicrobial resistance.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
"We're starting to understand the amount of resistance that will selected for by mass antibiotics."
Also, South Korea cases almost double, to 104, many part of a church cluster.
In the US, the vaccine did not protect against H1N1, which is now circulating more.
The United Kingdom's Food Standards Agency (FSA) released two surveillance reports this week on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in chicken meat.
