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The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) yesterday reported 40 more cases in a Cyclospora outbreak linked to McDonald's salads, pushing the illness total to 476.
In another new development, the NIH today announced the start of the first human trial of a live attenuated vaccine against Zika.
The announcement comes as Nigeria is experiencing its largest outbreak, with 481 confirmed cases reported as of last week, 133 of them fatal.
A longitudinal study of inpatients at Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) acute care hospitals has found that methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) colonization significantly increases the risk of MRSA infection, with a substantial number of infections occurring after discharge from the hospital, VA researchers report in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Ministry of Health (MOH) released a new update late yesterday afternoon on the growing Ebola outbreak in the eastern region of the country, noting seven new confirmed cases, one of whom is a healthcare worker at Mangina Reference Health Center.
As the WHO detailed stepped-up efforts to prepare four key countries to prevent and detect cases, tests in Uganda ruled out three suspected cases.
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced yesterday that it has issued a final rule spelling out USDA indemnity pay to farms hit by highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreaks.
A study of pigs has detected the presence of the MCR-3 colistin-resistance gene in England for the first time, United Kingdom researchers reported yesterday in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. But the study also found that stopping the use of colistin can mitigate long-term on-farm persistence.
The WHO's director-general today warned that 'red zones' in conflict areas could be hiding places for Ebola.
Possible reasons why elimination failed include water and sanitation problems and exposure to people who didn't take part in the treatment program.
Papua New Guinea record the fourth case of polio in an ongoing vaccine-derived poliovirus type 1 outbreak that marks the first return of the disease to the island nation since 2000.
A WHO official said Ebola spread could get worse before it gets better, due to health worker exposures early in the outbreak.
A new study based on 80,000 children shows no association between prenatal Tdap vaccination (tetanus, diphtheria, and acellular pertussis) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The study is published in Pediatrics.
The Institute for AMR Research and Education aims to tackle some of the big questions about antibiotic use in animal agriculture.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today reported four variant H1N2 (H1N2v) cases in people who had contact with swine at fairs, two first reported by California yesterday and two from Michigan, the same day the agency released a new graphic novel aimed at teaching young people about the risk of variant flu in swine exhibit settings.
In a study yesterday in Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control, scientists estimate that the annual economic cost of five common antimicrobial-resistant (AMR) pathogens to be $0.5 billion in Thailand and $2.9 billion in the United States.
The health ministry says 54 suspected cases are being investigated, up from 47.
Neisseria gonorrhea and carbapenamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) remain the most commonly reported organisms with resistance to critical antibiotics in Australia, according to a report yesterday by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (the Commission).
Some European countries this year experienced an early start to their West Nile virus (WNV) transmission season, which could be related to earlier warmer temperatures and higher rainfall levels that foster populations of Culex mosquitoes that carry the virus, according to two reports published today in the latest issue of Eurosurveillance.
The report covers 189 cases confirmed since the last assessment a year ago.
