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The H5N8 avian flu virus sweeping across Europe has now been detected for the first time in Britain.
Yesterday the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) released its epidemiologic survey of Zika virus and said the mosquito-borne illness was on the decline in Mexico but increasing in Anguilla, Paraguay, and Peru. Zika cases in the United States, meanwhile, topped 4,600.
Investigators with the Colorado Department of Public and Environment and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are reporting community-associated cases of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) in patients without known risk factors.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
In 3 days Hungary has reported 96 H5N8 outbreaks in poultry.
If 1 in every 29 cases go undetected, that could put the annual rate as high as 180,000 cases.
The fourth wave of H7N9 avian flu infections in China (from September 2015 through August 2016) saw continued geographic spread of the virus, a longer epidemic period, and a higher proportion of case-patients living in rural areas compared with the first three waves, a report today in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) noted.
The data show different rates of defects but shed light on the link between exposure timing and poor outcomes.
As H5N6 spreads in parts of Asia, the H5N8 strain hits more farms in Hungary, Poland, and France.
The Florida Department of Health (Florida Health) reported two new locally acquired Zika cases in Miami-Dade County residents yesterday, while the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued guidance for Brownsville, Tex., after state officials recently reported five local cases there, the first in the state.
European health officials are warning about an increase in carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infections in hospitals across the continent.
Thirty-three new outbreaks in Hungary involve a total of more than 300,000 poultry.
Achievements include more diagnostic testing in kids and prevention during pregnancy.
The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have collaborated on a toolkit to help public health departments communicate information about healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and antibiotic resistance to the public.
Macao has reported its first human H7N9 avian influenza case, involving a 58-year-old man who owns a poultry market stall, according to a Xinhua report today in Chinese translated and posted by Avian Flu Diary (AFD), an infectious disease news blog. AFD said there are multiple media outlets reporting the finding, which was announced in an early morning media briefing by the local health department.
Far from human reach, researchers uncover a bacterium resistant to many antibiotics used today.
Also, Korean researchers detailed transmission patterns in its 2015 outbreak, including a role for doctor shopping and ED visits in super-spreading events.
Routine disease surveillance reports for November from two of China's provinces reveal five more H7N9 avian flu cases, according to official reports translated and posted by FluTrackers, an infectious disease news message board.
An international group reporting in Clinical Infectious Diseases said a 9-month-old who died of Ebola in Guinea after her parents showed no signs of the illness likely contracted the virus through her mother's breastmilk. Both the mother's milk and the father's semen tested positive for Ebola virus.
Some hospitals have more established programs and deeper resources, but a focus on key elements is common.
