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The outbreak has now reached 1,154 cases, including 731 deaths, for a 63% death rate.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recorded 78 more measles cases in the last week, a sign that ongoing outbreaks in several states are growing.
The 2019 total number of cases has jumped to 465 in 19 states, as Florida, Indiana, Massachusetts, and Nevada all reported their first cases of the year last week.
Patients range in age from 1 to 74 years, but at least half are children.
Officials note 10 new cases, and deaths top 700.
The flu season has now extended for 19 weeks, and pediatric flu deaths hit 82.
The Maryland State Senate and House of Delegates yesterday passed bills to strengthen a state law that restricts the routine use of antibiotics in animals that aren't sick.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) today reported two more MERS-CoV cases in Khafji, more evidence suggesting the city may be the site of a household or healthcare cluster. These are the sixth and seventh cases reported in Khafji since Mar 29.
The cases raise outbreak totals to 1,107, including 695 deaths, and 160 cases have occurred in the past 3 weeks.
Forty-two percent of the nursing homes enrolled in the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) met all seven of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) Core Elements of Antibiotic Stewardship in 2016, CDC researchers reported today in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) today reported three more MERS-CoV cases, all secondary infections in Khafji where two other cases were recently reported, potentially signifying a household or healthcare cluster.
The authors didn't expect such rapid evolution and exchange of genes.
Admission to an Ebola treatment unit was tied to a 38% drop in secondary cases.
A new Ebola species first identified in bats last year in Sierra Leone—named Bombali virus— has now been found in bats in Kenya, pointing to wide distribution, given that the two countries are on opposite coasts of Africa. Researchers from Finland, Kenya, and Sweden reported their findings in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
A team of Canadian physicians and pharmacists has identified metrics that can be used to measure the impact of pediatric antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs), according to a new paper in Pediatrics.
The DRC reported 3 new cases today after it had confirmed 30 in the previous 3 days.
Saudi Arabia today reported two more MERS-CoV cases, one of them fatal, according to a Ministry of Health (MOH) update to its epidemiologic week 14 report.
The fatal MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) case involves a 39-year-old man from Jazan in southwestern Saudi Arabia. An investigation found the source of the man's virus to be primary, meaning he wasn't likely exposed to another sick person.
Flu activity in most of the Northern Hemisphere is declining, with influenza A viruses still predominanting, the World Health Organization (WHO) said today in an update that covers data to Mar 17.
According to the WHO's online dashboard, cases have reached 1,089, including 676 deaths.
A new public-private partnership to address inappropriate antibiotic use and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) through wider use of rapid diagnostics was launched today at an event in Madrid.
