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Six East Coast and three West Coast governors band together to develop regional plans.
Applying diagnostic stewardship to molecular testing for Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) at a hospital system in California was associated with to a significant reduction in testing, cases, and costs, researchers reported today in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) reported a second new Ebola case, which involves an 11-month-old girl who was treated at the same Beni hospital as a man whose illness was announced on Apr 10.
Though COVID-19 activity has transformed holiday celebrations, governors of at last 6 states and New Zealand's prime minister declare the Easter bunny an essential worker.
Also, the CDC details geographic differences, and experts estimate the vast needs for protective equipment.
Historian John Barry shares what's the same, what's different, and talks about good COVID-19 leadership.
The head of the WHO says lifting restrictions too quickly could lead to a deadly resurgence.
A paper yesterday in Current Opinion in Virology highlights a new effort led by the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) to track the development of universal influenza vaccine technologies.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Originally published by CIDRAP News Apr 9
Just days before the World Health Organization (WHO) was prepared to declare the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) over, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, said today that officials have confirmed a new case.
Global cases reach 1,579,690, including 94,567 deaths.
In a third study, temperature, humidity, and UV radiation had no effect on disease spread.
Washington, DC, Baltimore, and Philadelphia will likely be the next US hot spots, officials say.
Homemade masks may capture respiratory droplets, but no evidence shows they filter out aerosols, a new report says.
In a snapshot of MERS-CoV cases in Saudi Arabia in February, the country reported 18 cases, 5 of them fatal, from 9 different cities, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday.
A retrospective study of Veterans Health Administration (VHA) hospitals found that the presence of an infectious diseases (ID) specialist may facilitate improvements in antibiotic prescribing, US researchers reported today in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
The savings could rise significantly if more accurate diagnostic tests were available, the authors say.
"Please quarantine politicizing COVID," Tedros says.
Data are sparse on warmer temps and less disease, and some nations with "summer" climates are seeing rapid spread.
Also, a study highlights a person who had only mild symptoms but infected at least 10 people.
