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Many nations are following up on last year's pledges, and 85% of nations have action plans in the works or completed.
The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) reported two new cases of MERS-CoV in Al Hofuf late last week, one of which was fatal. These are the first cases reported by the MOH in 10 days.
On Sep 21, the MOH confirmed that a 48-year-old Saudi man with direct camel contact was diagnosed as having MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) infection after presenting with MERS symptoms. He is in stable condition.
State and county health officials in Maryland are investigating influenza in 11 pigs that were recently shown at a fair in Frederick County, the second time flu has been detected at the state's county fairs in as many weeks.
A single dose of the live-attenuated vaccine prevents transmission to the offspring of pregnant mice, as well as preventing testicular damage in male mice.
The new technique could produce results in a fraction of the time needed for conventional tests.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) reported a new case of MERS-CoV to the World Health Organization (WHO), according to a WHO update yesterday.
A 78-year-old man from Al Ain was hospitalized on Aug 11 with symptoms of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection. The man was not a healthcare worker, but no other details of his exposure or risk factors were available at this time.
More funding, public health efforts, and surveillance are needed to ensure responsible use of antimicrobials in food animals and humans, Maria Helena Semedo, deputy director-general with the United Nations (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), said yesterday. She was speaking to participants at a UN General Assembly event on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR).
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
About 75% of counties on the US mainland have suitable habitat for Aedes mosquitoes, CDC researchers say.
Recommendations focus on public-private R&D funding, incentives, and other steps.
A multidrug-resistant parasite lineage that has become dominant in Cambodia, with spread to parts of Thailand and Laos, has now spread to southern Vietnam, where it has been linked to an alarming number of treatment failures in patients who were given the nation's first-line treatment.
Seven people who had close contact with swine at the Charles County Fair in Maryland have been diagnosed as having H3N2v, a variant swine-origin flu. The Maryland Department of Health (MDH) published details of the cases on its Web site yesterday.
The study involved almost 5,000 women in a country with high vaccine uptake.
Postoperative antibiotics more than cut in half the rate of surgical site infection (SSI) within 30 days after delivery among obese women undergoing cesarean delivery, according to the results of a randomized controlled trial published yesterday in JAMA.
High flu activity continues in several parts of the world, especially in Australia, as well as some countries in southern Asia and southeast Asia, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in its latest global flu update.
Drugs in the pipeline will add little to the arsenal and will not be enough to tackle AMR, experts say.
EpiVax, Inc., a vaccine development and immune engineering company based in Providence, R.I., yesterday announced it is part of collaboration supported by a $5.8 million award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a new type of vaccine against H7N9 avian influenza.
Symbiomix Therapeutics announced yesterday that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Sep 15 approved its antibiotic Solosec (secnidazole) for treating bacterial vaginosis (BV) in adults, the first single-dose option for the condition.
Italy has now confirmed 14 cases of locally acquired chikungunya, 6 of them in Rome, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a Sep 15 statement.
Researchers at the University of Washington report in Clinical Infectious Diseases that a subclone of the emerging global pathogen Escherichia coli sequence type (ST) 131 is not as prevalent in children as adults but is nearly as dominant in drug-resistant E coli infections in children.
