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In other MERS-CoV news, following a surge of hospital-related cases from Riyadh, new cases in Saudi Arabia seem to be slowing, with one illness reported over the past 6 days.
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced yesterday that a shipment containing 400 tons of equipment and supplies, including ambulances, arrived in Yemen on Jun 30 to help with the country's cholera outbreak.
A 'nudging' strategy uses psychosocial factors to improve prescribing.
Cases are down from the 10 reported last week but show ongoing virus circulation in the summer.
A hands-on educational program dramatically increased primary school students' knowledge of antibiotic action and use, according to a study yesterday in the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
A study in children tested for flu over three seasons at a New Orleans hospital found modest but consistent flu vaccine effectiveness, that a switch from the inactivated trivalent to quadrivalent (four-strain) formulation didn't seem to help or hurt effectiveness, and that the inhaled version of the vaccine didn't perform as well, but improved over successive seasons.
The plan focuses on promoting best practices, boosting innovation, and shaping the global agenda.
The new vaccine-derived cases lift the outbreak total to 22, all but 1 in Deir ez-Zor governorate.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) that the 2016-17 flu season was dominated by influenza A (H3N2), and the flu vaccine was only 34% effective in protecting recipients against that strain and 42% effective against all strains.
The authors of the study say they're concerned the gene may already be widely disseminated.
The patch produced a strong immune response and was well tolerated in 50 volunteers.
One more illness cluster has been reported among 21 recent H7N9 avian flu infections reported in China, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in an update today. Its report covers 9 lab-confirmed cases reported to the WHO by China on Jun 2 as well as 12 cases reported on Jun 9.
The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) today sent a letter to members of congressional appropriations committees urging them to reject President Trump's proposed cuts to antimicrobial resistance (AMR) initiatives.
In the wake of new laws and tighter federal oversight, the FDA has done more than 400 inspections, sent 150 warning letters, and overseen 125 recalls.
A review and meta-analysis of studies on bacterial transmission and antibiotic resistance during the annual pilgrimage to Mecca has found rising rates of resistance among certain gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria, researchers report in Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease.
Two years of conflict have cut 14.5 million people off from access to clean water and sanitation.
Current viruses fall into 2 geographically separate clades.
Researchers with the University of Texas at Austin report that the incidence of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is increasing among cancer patients, according to a new study in BMC Infectious Diseases.
The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) updated its MERS-CoV statistics for the first time in more than a week, noting two new cases not related to current hospital outbreaks in Riyadh.
