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One more Ebola case has been confirmed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) outbreak, lifting the overall outbreak total to 3,349 cases, according to numbers reflected on the World Health Organization (WHO) online Ebola dashboard. Authorities are still investigating 519 suspected cases.
Also, 1 more patient died from Ebola, putting the fatality total at 2,211.
In other updates, measles cases are on the rise in the Americas, but showed another decline in Europe.
With 8 new infections, outbreak totals have now climbed to 3,348 cases and 2,210 deaths.
Today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) British authors offered evidence supporting a long-observed phenomenon of the cold and flu season: Having either a rhinovirus or influenza makes a person less likely to contract the other virus.
San Diego-based biopharmaceutical company Qpex Biopharma today announced it will receive a second round of funding from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) to develop a portfolio of antibiotics targeting antibiotic-resistant gram-negative bacteria.
Influenza B is still predominant, but H1N1 levels are rising; also, the CDC reports 4 new deaths in kids.
One of the chains involves a patient who has a 2nd Ebola illness, the WHO says.
The grower, in the Salinas, California, growing region, has been linked to 3 separate outbreaks.
New research by a team of scientists from the United Kingdom suggests that whole-genome sequencing (WGS) should be considered as an alternative to traditional phenotypic testing for national surveillance of antibiotic resistance.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
According to the latest weekly update from the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) today, Pakistan tracked three new cases of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) this past week, while several African and Pacific island nations reported a total of 22 vaccine-derived polio cases.
Study finds that more than 40% of prescriptions were inappropriate.
The study was a head-to-head look at 3 vaccines targeted to seniors against the standard vaccine.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC's) Ebola technical committee said there are three new cases of Ebola today, raising the outbreak total to 3,343, and 432 suspected cases are under investigation.
The technical committee, the CMRE, said the death toll now stands at 2,210. Today's cases come from Mabalako and Biena, which had gone 85 days without a new case.
Additional surveillance following a 17-case outbreak in northeastern Germany of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) Klebsiella pneumoniae has revealed 2 additional cases and details on the XDR strain, according to a study today in Eurosurveillance.
Sales of medically important antibiotics for food animals rose 9% from 2017 to 2018.
Two weeks ago a top WHO official predicted just such a surge; cases have now reached 3,340.
Patients with severe flu treated with a combination of the antiviral drugs favipiravir and oseltamivir compared with oseltamivir (Tamiflu) alone had faster recoveries, according to findings published today in The Journal of Infectious Diseases.
A review of Medicaid claims in Kentucky from 2012 through 2016 found that cefdinir prescriptions for treating outpatient pediatric infections has increased over the study period, researchers based at the University of Kentucky reported today in the Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society.
In other developments, humanitarian group World Vision releases reports on interviews with people, including many children, from hardest-hit areas.
