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Washington Governor Jay Inslee on Jan 25 declared a public health emergency as a step to boost its response to a measles outbreak that has now sickened 34 in the Vancouver area, with 1 case confirmed in King County in the Seattle area.
All 10 US regions are showing elevated flulike illness, and pediatric deaths have reached 22.
With 6 new cases in Katwa, outbreak totals now stand at 721, including 446 deaths.
The Bon Appetit Management Company, which in 2003 became the first US food service company to pledge to reduce antibiotic use in the animals it uses for food, has updated and streamlined its antibiotics policy, which for the first time includes seafood.
Saudi Arabia's health ministry today reported two more MERS-CoV cases, both involving men from Riyadh who apparently didn't have exposure to camels or people with known infections.
In its update to its epidemiologic week 4 report, the ministry said the patients, ages 53 and 69, are both hospitalized for their MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) infections.
The illnesses bring the overall outbreak total to 715, including 443 deaths.
The plan calls for a 10% reduction in antibiotic-resistant infections in people by 2025.
A New York resident who drank raw milk from a Pennsylvania dairy has contracted the nation's third known case of brucellosis caused by the antibiotic-resistant Brucella RB51 strain, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said yesterday in a Health Alert Network (HAN) notice. The previous two illnesses occurred in 2017.
Today in Eurosurveillance, researchers published the first estimates of vaccine effectiveness (VE) for the 2018-19 seasonal flu vaccine administered in Canada, showing that overall VE was 68% in a season driven by influenza A(H1N1) viruses and 72% against the predominant strain.
Thirteen of 18 health zones in the region have reported cases in the past 3 weeks, and deaths have reached 439.
Dengue immunity, however, doesn't seem to generally protect against Zika infection, the researchers find.
Outcomes were similar in the 2 groups, but oral-step-down patients had shorter stays.
Experts from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated yesterday in Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control that establishing nationwide antibiotic stewardship programs to prevent Clostridioides difficile infections in hospitals would result in an annual net benefit of $25.5 billion.
According to a series of tweets made by Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD, the agency is trying its best to handle food safety inspections and other critical work during what has become the nation's longest government shutdown.
The number of confirmed cases in the DRC has jumped by 19 in recent days.
Washington state's Clark County, which is part of the Portland, Ore., metropolitan area, has declared a public health emergency related to a measles outbreak, with 22 cases confirmed so far, along with 3 more suspected cases.
A new study by Emory University researchers reports that more than half of the patients visiting primary care clinics in the university's healthcare network with acute respiratory infections (ARIs) received antibiotics, with substantial variation in prescribing rates by site and provider. The findings were published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.
Three more pediatric flu deaths were reported, bringing to 19 the number of deaths in children this season.
Japanese researchers describe two H3N2 flu viruses with mutations that may increase antiviral resistance.
A total of 62.4% of patients taking tafenoquine were free of P vivax after 6 months.
