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In other developments, humanitarian group World Vision releases reports on interviews with people, including many children, from hardest-hit areas.
Fresh Express salads are linked to a 3-state, 8-case outbreak in the US and 16 cases in Canada.
Global funding has reached an all-time high but falls far short of what's needed to eliminate TB.
A survey of health insurance claims made in the United States from 2007 through 2018 shows that claim lines with a diagnosis of Lyme disease increased 117%. The information is included in a white paper published today by FAIR Health, an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to healthcare costs and health insurance information.
According to Avian Flu Diary, an infectious disease tracking blog, Taiwan's Centers for Disease Control and Ministry of Health today reported two human cases of H9N2 avian flu originating in mainland China were reported to the World Health Organization in November.
With 112 new cases in the past 24 hours, Samoa's outbreak has grown to 4,693 cases.
Response activities are still "paralyzed" in Beni, Mangina, and Biakato over violence.
A multifaceted outpatient stewardship intervention at Veterans Affairs primary care clinics in Pennsylvania was associated with sustained reductions in overall, unnecessary, and suboptimal antibiotic prescription rates for up to a year after some components were discontinued, researchers reported today in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Malaysia's health ministry yesterday announced a vaccine-derived poliovirus type 1 (cVDPV1) case, marking the country's first polio case in 27 years, according to a statement.
The patient is a 3-year-old boy from the city of Tuaran in Sabah state who was hospitalized for fever followed by a weak limb, which required admission to the intensive care unit. Tests confirmed his cVDPV1 infection on Dec 6.
Outpatient visits for influenza-like illnesses jump from 2.9% to 3.5%.
After 2 new attacks, Doctors Without Borders pulls its staff from Biakato.
Afghanistan has one new case of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1), and Angola recorded 16 new cases of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) according to the latest weekly report from the Global Polio Eradication Intuitive (GPEI).
A review of national documents shows that fewer than half of European countries have implemented publicly accessible mandatory surveillance of at least one of the World Health Organization's (WHO's) priority pathogens, European researchers reported yesterday in Clinical Microbiology and Infection.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
The efficacy of the conjugate vaccine was thus 82%, and it had a good safety profile.
Measles cases skyrocketed 167% from 2016 to 2018, and deaths climbed from 110,000 in 2017 to 140,000 last year.
The emergency stockpile is part of efforts to streamline response to the next outbreak.
Yesterday the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said 35 more people have been sickened in an Escherichia coli outbreak tied to romaine lettuce grown near Salinas, California.
The outbreak total now stands at 102 illnesses in 23 states, with 4 states reporting their first cases.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today approved a new test to diagnose methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), which will allow health workers to screen patients for MRSA colonization more quickly—in as little as 5 hours compared with 24 to 48 hours for traditional culture-based tests.
Overall progress has stalled since 2014, with a large gap in funding as the main culprit, but there are bright spots.
