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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says it will now recommend that hospitals move away from using duodenoscopes with reusable parts because of concerns about patient infections that have been linked to cleaning issues.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
In the latest global polio developments, Pakistan reported five more wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases, while two African nations—Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)—reported more positive circulating vaccine-derived polio type 2 (cVDPV2) detections. The details appear today in the weekly update from the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI).
A letter argues that the EPA has ignored other federal agencies and scientific evidence.
The girl's Ebola symptoms were flagged at an entry point in the same district of Uganda where imported cases were detected in June.
As risk areas expand, the CWD regulation updates will apply to more Minnesota hunters this season.
As measles cases this year pile up in Europe, four European nations—Albania, the Czech Republic, Greece, and the United Kingdom—have lost their measles elimination status, the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe said today.
In another new development, two experts say more research on Ebola in breastmilk is urgently needed to guide recommendations.
A survey of Israeli physicians and analysis of patient data has found that antibiotics are overused in patients with end-of-life advanced directives, Israeli researchers reported today in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.
Six more Ebola cases were confirmed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Ebola outbreak, raising the overall total to 2,983, according to numbers reflected today on the World Health Organization (WHO) online Ebola dashboard.
Health officials are still investigating 397 suspected infections. Four more people died from their infections, bringing the fatality count to 1,990.
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) yesterday announced a joint initiative with environmental and industry groups to reduce the amount of antibiotic discharge from pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities.
After establishing its Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Program in March, today the University of Minnesota's Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) launched a new online CWD Resource Center for educating the public, hunters, medical and public health professionals, wildlife scientists, veterinarians, and policymakers about the disease.
A study conducted in Dutch hospitals has found that an isolation strategy of contact precautions in a multiple-bed hospital room was non-inferior to a strategy of contact precautions in a single-bed room for preventing the spread of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Enterobacteriaceae, Dutch researchers reported in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.
Disease in hot spots like Beni continues to feed other areas, such as recent cases in South Kivu province.
Experts say the cost of a scale-up is $34 billion but would pay for itself 8 times over.
"The antibiotic resistance pattern of this strain is alarming," a CDC expert says.
Afghanistan has one more wild poliovirus (WPV) case, and Angola and Ghana each have one more vaccine-derived polio case, according to the latest weekly update today from the Global Polio Eradication Initiate (GPEI).
The three new cases come during the same week Nigeria reached the 3-year mark of no WPV transmission.
A national survey has found that antibiotic stewardship programs (ASPs) in US nursing homes have become more comprehensive since the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) required the facilities to have them, researchers from Columbia University School of Nursing reported yesterday in the American Journal of Infection Control.
Officials are bracing for more cases and spread to new areas after a community protest led to the suspension of Ebola response activities.
