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The MCR-1 resistance gene, which has now been detected in at least 20 countries and renders bacteria resistant to the last-resort antibiotic colistin, poses a "substantial public health risk" to the European Union and must be combatted on a range of fronts, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said today in its latest rapid risk assessment.
Though the WHO has rejected calls to postpone or move the Olympics, the emergency committee reconsidered the issue again, weighing input from more experts.
A pharmacist-driven program achieves an 18% reduction in antibiotic use.
The plan includes a tiered approach, tailored to how much Aedes mosquito and disease activity exists in any given region.
Federal officials have detected the MCR-1 resistance gene in another Escherichia coli isolate taken from a pig, bringing to three the number of US detections in 3 weeks, after the gene was found in late May in samples from a person and a separate pig.
The Southern Hemisphere flu season has begun to see increases in some temperate countries of South America and in South Africa, but activity is fairly low in such countries in the Oceana region as Australia, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday in a global flu update.
Qatar reports its third case of the year, while Saudi Arabia confirms an illness linked to camel exposure.
FDA approval means a cholera vaccine is available to US travelers for the first time.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has confirmed that Escherichia coli O121 found in a sample of General Mills flour from the home of one of the patients in a 38-case outbreak matches the strain infecting people.
The Netherlands lost nearly 45,000 poultry to low-pathogenic H7N9 avian influenza, the first outbreak of the strain in more than a year, according to a Jun 10 report from the country to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE).
The WHO says it does not recommend delaying pregnancy in Zika-affected areas, while 3 reports highlight sexual transmission risks.
At times consumers were at risk "for several weeks after FDA was aware of a potentially hazardous food," the report says.
The CDC is working on a Zika response plan for when the first local US cases are detected.
Low doses of the Makona strain of Ebola failed to cause disease, tissue lesions, or high viral titers in macaques when administered via the mouth or eye, according to a study yesterday in the Journal of Infectious Disease.
Yellow fever stubbornly persists and is spreading, despite a major influx of vaccine.
In an emergency department study, more than 75% of patients were given the drugs unnecessarily for suspected gonorrhea or chlamydia.
Also, the NAS says more research is needed on genetically modified mosquitoes.
Today the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Liberia free of Ebola transmission—meaning the last patient in the country tested negative for a second time 42 days ago—a step that marks the third time West Africa has been declared free of Ebola after its massive outbreak in 2014 and 2015.
Non-neutralizing, cross-reactive antibodies may play a role in fostering protective immunity following H7N9 avian flu vaccination and are likely missed by traditional vaccine immunogenicity tests, according to a study yesterday in Cell Host & Microbe.
One report describes eye problems in a baby born without microcephaly and the other notes sexual transmission 44 days after the male partner's infection.
