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Vietnam today reported two more highly pathogenic H5N1 avian flu outbreaks, raising the number of affected provinces this year to seven, according to a report from the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE).
Elsewhere, more H5N8 avian flu has been detected in Poland and Australia.
Hepatitis C testing prevalence rose only slightly, from 12.3% to 13.8%, from 2013 to 2015.
Despite guidelines that recommend amoxicillin as a first-line therapy for children with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), most kids diagnosed with CAP are receiving macrolides and broad-spectrum antibiotics, according to a study yesterday in Pediatrics.
Three more children and one more adult have been infected by harmful Escherichia coli linked to an Illinois company's soy nut butter products, bringing to 16 the number of confirmed cases in an expanding national outbreak, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said yesterday in an update as the company expanded its recall.
Officials empasize it is not the H7N9 virus that has affected poultry and humans in China.
Pentamidine, mainly used to treat a fungal infection, showed powerful combination effects.
In a study that expands on an earlier analysis, screening of blood donations in Puerto Rico last spring and summer found a 13% incidence of Zika virus, according to a study yesterday in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
Two more H7N9 avian influenza cases have been reported from China's mainland, and one new imported infection has been detected in Hong Kong, according to separate announcements today from Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection (CHP).
In other developments, Nepal reported its second H5N1 outbreak of the year, France continues battling several strains, and H5N8 triggered more European outbreaks.
The virus claimed 700 chickens, and more than 70,000 were culled to contain the outbreak.
A study today of Zika infections in Canadian travelers who visited destinations in the Americas revealed they were just as common as other mosquito-borne diseases, with complications more severe than expected. A team from Canada reported its findings in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ).
Appropriate use of the "watchful waiting" strategy for management of acute otitis media (AOM) in children could reduce healthcare costs and improve health outcomes, according to a new study in Pediatrics.
Six more children died from flu last week, bringing the season's pediatric death total to 40.
The virus caused an outbreak in early February, but it was originally mistakenly reported as H5N8.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
A new report from the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) says the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) needs to provide more guidance to drug companies on how to use incentives to develop new antibiotics.
The Florida Department of Health (Florida Health) yesterday reported three more locally acquired Zika cases, all involving samples collected a few months ago.
Two involve people who were sampled in October as part of an ongoing investigation, and Florida Health recently received confirmation test results back from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The vaccine cut deaths 36.4% in a severe flu season but not at all in the next season.
The new H1N1 strain mirrors the change the WHO made last September for the Southern Hemisphere flu vaccine.
