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One study found a link, but the other, when it focused on siblings and twins, found none.
Also, Vietnam reports person-to-person spread as more locations confirm cases.
A woman in Chicago becomes the 2nd imported US case of the novel coronavirus.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
In its weekly FluView update today, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported 15 new pediatric deaths attributed to influenza. CDC estimates this season there have been at least 15 million flu illnesses, 140,000 hospitalizations, and 8,200 deaths from flu.
Summit Therapeutics yesterday announced that the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) has awarded the company an additional $8.8 million for clinical and regulatory development of an investigational antibiotic for treating Clostridiodes difficile infection (CDI).
The 27 detections from the 2019 hunting season were confined to southeastern Minnesota.
Also, CEPI announces a major push to develop vaccines as cases top 600.
The two studies address unanswered questions about the vaccine, experts say.
Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and its state partners today updated surveillance data on birth defects related to prenatal Zika virus infection and found that defects in 22 US jurisdictions reached a peak prevalence of 7.0 per 1,000 live births in February 2017.
The emergency committee holds off on declaring a public health emergency of international concern.
In 2 reports, the WHO said most antibiotics in development offer little benefit over existing ones, and too few are truly innovative.
In a surprising finding, pet ownership and increasing contact with pets may be protective against the recurrence of community-acquired Clostridiodes difficile infection (CDI), researchers from the University of Pennsylvania reported recently in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.
According to the latest situation report published by the World Health Organization (WHO) yesterday, the 15 most recent Ebola cases reported from Jan 13 to 19 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) all came from a known transmission chain and were all recorded in Beni (9 cases) and Mabalako (6 cases).
The man didn't visit markets or have contact with sick patients while in Wuhan.
A Chinese medical community tracking numbers puts China's outbreak total at 321 cases.
A vaccinated health worker is among the 5 new Ebola cases recorded since late last week in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which raise the outbreak total to 3,416, including 2,237 deaths. A total of 394 suspected cases are still under investigation, according to the World Health Organization's (WHO's) online Ebola dashboard.
Imperial College London announced yesterday that it has won a €22.5 million ($25 million US) grant to work with researchers in 15 countries over 5 years to develop a rapid test to diagnose infectious diseases based on personalized gene signatures after taking the next 2 years to develop a library of gene signatures covering common infections and other diseases.
Fourteen health workers are now infected in the 218-case nCoV outbreak.
A surge in the last past 2 days lifts the outbreak total to 198, with 1 new case in Shenzhen.
