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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.
One-minute permethrin exposure led to a loss of normal movement for all three tick species.
A report from the Kaiser Family Foundation says the US role in outbreak response is key but less prominent in the face of stronger international capacity.
Almost 80% of premature infants get early antibiotic treatment, with little change in recent years.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
South Korean researchers have confirmed the colistin-resistance genes MCR-1 and MCR-3 in Escherichia coli isolates from food animals, according to a study yesterday in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases.
Tests on two earlier reported suspected Nipah virus cases from India's Karnataka state were negative for the virus, as another, previously unaffected state—Telangana—identified two possible cases and sent samples for testing, according to the latest media reports from India.
Also, new reports cover vaccine challenges and lessons learned in West Africa.
Local officials say the outbreak total has reached 36 cases, 14 confirmed and 22 suspected.
In a major development today on the sidelines of the World Health Assembly under way in Geneva, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank Group announced the launch of a new mechanism to firm up global health security, an independent monitoring board to regularly assess country preparedness to handle outbreaks, pandemics, and other health emergencies.
A paper today in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy reports that a Scottish stewardship program resulted in decreasing use of carbapenems and piperacillin/tazobactam and could be generalized to other antibiotics.
"After controlling for [other] factors, we still find that temperature is a strong predictor of antibiotic resistance."
With worries about the disease spreading in Mbandaka, the WHO said the DRC risk is very high and the regional risk is high.
Chinese scientists yesterday reported on the emergence of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) Escherichia coli carrying both New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase (NDM) and MCR-1 genes in chickens at slaughter in China and detailed the features of two novel NDM-carrying plasmids.
Authorities in a second Indian state are investigating two suspected Nipah virus infections, both of them in people who had traveled to Kerala state where they had contact with infected patients, Reuters reported today, citing a health official in Karnataka state.
Those with GBS and Zika had more severe symptoms, including facial weakness, and required more ICU care.
The study found no signifiant difference in patients with lower respiratory tract infections.
More than $25 million is newly pledged for an outbreak that has grown to 51 total cases, 28 confirmed.
The death toll for a Nipah virus outbreak in India's Kerala state now stands at 10, after at least 12 more people have been diagnosed as having the deadly virus, according to a Reuters report today.
Reuters said an additional nine people are being treated for infections with supportive care. Nipah virus is most commonly spread by fruit bats, and presents with severe, flu-like symptoms.
Four more illnesses have been reported, along with another death in a healthcare worker.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced late last week the end of an investigation into a multistate outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium tied to dried coconut.
