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New report finds that 70% of all fatal human rabies infections were caused by bats.
A Department of Defense (DOD) study that compared vaccine effectiveness (VE) of cell-based and egg-based flu vaccines found that the egg-produced version performed significantly better against the 2009 H1N1 strain, and the cell-based version performed better against H3N2, though the difference wasn't statistically significant. Researchers published their findings yesterday in Vaccine.
Since the first of the year officials have tallied 87,000 suspected cases in 23 of the DRC's 26 provinces.
The patient is 5, and at least two of his family members also have Ebola symptoms.
Solithromycin, a novel fourth-generation macrolide, isn't a suitable alternative to standard therapy of ceftriaxone plus azithromycin for treating gonorrhea, according to a study yesterday by researchers from Australia and the United States in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.
A large study to assess if a new guideline recommending live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV, or FluMist) for children over age 2 years with asthma found no increase in lower respiratory events following vaccination. A research team from HealthPartners, a Minnesota-based healthcare and insurance provider, published its findings yesterday in Vaccine.
The outbreak has now reached 2,062 infections, with deaths climbing to 1,390.
Children were 5 times more likely to have pertussis if it had been more than 3 years since their last vaccine dose.
Researchers in Scotland report in PLOS Medicine that implementation of an antimicrobial stewardship program (ASP) was associated with large, sustained reductions in the prescribing of three broad-spectrum antimicrobials and in a modest reduction of coliform bacteremia resistance rates.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported 41 more measles cases in the past week, raising 2019's total number of cases to 1,022, a record for the post-elimination era.
"This is the greatest number of cases reported in the U.S. since 1992 and since measles was declared eliminated in 2000," the CDC said today.
The agency highlights earlier case-contact registration and a drastically lower rate of healthcare-related disease spread.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
An investigational drug to treat highly resistant strains of tuberculosis (TB) took another step in the regulatory approval process yesterday.
A longer-term study in Niger finds much the same protective effect.
"We get to adapt… and make the response the best we can make it," the WHO's Mike Ryan, MD, says.
"Measles is an incredibly contagious and dangerous disease," HHS Secretary Azar says.
Rates of chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, and trichomoniasis—four curable sexually transmitted infections (STIs)—have not declined significantly since 2012, according to a report today from the World Health Organization (WHO). In fact, as many as 1 million diagnoses of these STIs are made each day, representing an enormous public health burden.
A nationwide team of pediatric infectious disease and emergency medicine specialists has developed a new scoring system to identify febrile infants with a low probability of invasive bacterial infection (IBI), according to a paper yesterday in Pediatrics.
"The fact that Congress passed this bill is acknowledgement that health security is national security."
Seventeen new infections and 11 new fatalities raise outbreak totals to 2,025 cases and 1,357 deaths.
