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University of Washington and University of Oxford experts yesterday announced the inclusion of mortality and morbidity data related to drug-resistant infections into the annual Global Burden of Disease Study, part of a new antimicrobial resistance (AMR) project "to provide rigorous quantitative evidence of the burden of AMR, to increase awareness of AMR, to support better surveillance of AMR, and to foster the rat
Of 53 cases, 37 are confirmed, 13 probable, and 3 suspected; deaths remain at 25.
Influenza illnesses can trigger asthmatic episodes that don't respond to treatment.
Health officials in Minnesota and Wisconsin are investigating a Salmonella outbreak linked to frozen breaded chicken products, and Canadian authorities are probing a similar outbreak also linked to the same type of product.
A new study in the Journal of Drugs and Dermatology suggests that a diuretic drug may be as effective as antibiotics for treatment of women's acne.
The view that there is potential benefit and very little risk in taking antibiotics is widespread.
At least 89 people have been hospitalized, 26 with a serious kidney complication.
In an update to its Influenza Risk Assessment Tool (IRAT), the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) yesterday added 2 more viruses, raising the total on the list to 15.
A Johns Hopkins study has determined that selecting an indication for antibiotics from an evidence-based list as opposed to free-text indications increases the odds that antibiotic agents will be used appropriately, according to a study yesterday in the American Journal of Infection Control.
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The first patient got sick after exposure to camels and their milk, and six others contracted the virus in the household setting.
Some patients are getting inferior antibiotics, the authors say.
The Democratic Republic of Congo's health ministry yesterday and today ruled out some suspected cases based on lab tests and confirmed 2 more in the remote Iboko outbreak location, dropping the outbreak total to 50 cases, including 37 confirmed and 13 probable, with no suspected cases. No new deaths were reported, keeping that total at 25.
Epidemiologists with the Florida Department of Health and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported today on a small outbreak of carbapenemase-producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa at a long-term acute care hospital.
In the children's study, headache, irritability, and hospitalization rates varied by age.
Cases now total 51, and vaccine uptake has been high among more than 900 case contacts identified.
Also, the FAO, WHO, and OIE agree to strengthen their collaboration on antimicrobial resistance.
A new index that evaluates 60 global food companies on health, environmental, and social issues has found that more than three-quarters of those companies rank as "high risk" on antibiotic stewardship.
Vaccination is under way in two remote areas as officials get closer to testing as many as five treatments.
Health officials from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) recorded the country's first MERS-CoV case of 2018 in a camel farmer, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported yesterday.
A 78-year-old man from Ghayathi was diagnosed as having MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) on May 13 after presenting with symptoms of the virus at an Abu Dhabi hospital. He is in stable condition.
