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2016 saw 10.4 million TB cases and 1.7 million deaths, with 490,000 multidrug-resistant cases.
The outbreak has now become Nigeria's largest ever, with 9 confirmed cases.
Uganda's recently announced second lab-confirmed Marburg virus patient—part of a family cluster— visited two traditional healers for his symptoms, one of them across the border in western Kenya, the World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa (WHO AFRO) said today in its weekly outbreak and health emergencies bulletin.
The man, who died from his infection, is a brother of the first confirmed case-patient.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in its weekly FluView report, noted a new case of variant influenza A reported in Ohio involving variant H1N2 (H1N2v).
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Canadian researchers have found that hospital-specific antibiotic usage was associated with increased, rather than decreased, antibiotic susceptibility in a study yesterday in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.
The World Health Organization (WHO) reported a total of 1,309 suspected cases, including 93 deaths, in an update yesterday on the plague outbreak in Madagascar. The case-fatality rate for the outbreak is now 7%.
The numbers reflect an increase of 12 cases and 9 fewer deaths from the WHO's previous update on Oct 20.
The data show emergency department visits, among other factors, increase C difficile risk.
European health and food safety agencies have established a set of indicators to assess progress in combating antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and reducing antimicrobial use in humans and food-producing animals.
Genetic analysis of H7N9 viruses obtained from Chinese poultry from 2013 to 2017 identified new mutations that make the virus more lethal in chickens and may pose a greater threat to human health, based on virulence and transmissibility tests in animal models. Researchers from China reported their findings Oct 24 in Cell Research.
Panel gives a preference to Shingrix and recommends MMR for mumps outbreaks.
The technique could be used to detect outbreaks while they're happening.
A fatal yellow fever case has been confirmed in a resident of Itatiba, a city in Brazil's Sao Paulo state, located about 50 miles north the state's capital city, according to an Oct 17 city government statement translated and posted yesterday by ProMED Mail, the online reporting system of the International Society for Infectious Diseases.
Alopexx Vaccine LLC today reported positive phase 1 results for its broad-spectrum antimicrobial vaccine, which targets drug-resistant bacteria, including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and serious infections like pneumonia, meningitis, bloodstream infections, and gonorrhea.
The PATH analysis discusses progress, outlines the risk, and recommends key actions.
A US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention–led study published yesterday in Clinical Infectious Diseases reveals that antiviral drugs are prescribed to only 15% of outpatients who have acute respiratory infections (ARIs) and a high risk for influenza.
The data underscore a need to increase appropriate prescribing, the authors said.
After a 9-day lapse in cases, Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) today reported a MERS-CoV infection in a 77-year-old man in Riyadh who had contact with camels before he got sick.
In a statement, the MOH said the man is a Saudi citizen who has symptoms of MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) and is listed in stable condition.
The annual reports describe resistance patterns in samples from humans, retail meat, and animals at slaughter.
Surveillance report finds rising incidence of E coli bacteremia, declining antibiotic consumption in England.
A new study published in Clinical infectious Diseases suggests that a Salmonella strain circulating in pigs in the US Midwest is part of an emerging clade from Europe that is resistant to multiple antibiotics and may pose a public health risk.
