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A new meta-analysis of 42 flu studies found that vaccination over two consecutive seasons didn't reduce flu vaccine effectiveness (VE) compared with people vaccinated during the current season, but the researchers included the caveat that the overall quality of evidence was low, due to inconsistency and imprecision among the studies.
Scientists in China are reporting the emergence of a new strain of hypervirulent, carbapenem-resistant of Klebsiella pneumoniae.
Tick-borne diseases more than doubled and account for more than 60% of all vector-borne infections.
Officials are investigating norovirus outbreaks involving dozens of cases linked to raw oysters from British Columbia.
An updated analysis of the seasonal flu attack rate in unvaccinated people found that the virus infects 1 in 5 children each year and 1 in 10 adults, with symptomatic illness seen in about half of the infections. A team from Australia and New Zealand reported its findings yesterday in Vaccine.
A state-by-state analysis of global health spending published today estimates that US government investments bring jobs, health security, and an economic boost to state economies while saving millions of lives worldwide, according to a report by the Global Health Technologies Coalition (GHTC).
In a speech at the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Medical Society on Apr 27, philanthropist and Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates announced the launch of a $12 million Grand Challenge to speed the development of a universal flu vaccine.
Six years after it was first implemented, a multifaceted, practice-based intervention among Spanish primary care physicians continued to keep antibiotic prescribing levels down for respiratory tract infections (RTIs), researchers report in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.
Officials are sorting out sources of chopped romaine as outbreak hospitalizaton levels rise.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
A new surveillance report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found a high level of adherence to the agency's recommended treatment for uncomplicated gonorrhea.
The Brazilian Ministry of Health (MOH) updated yellow fever counts for the country, noting 61 newly confirmed cases including 22 more deaths from the virus.
Between Jul 1, 2017 and Apr 24, 2018 the MOH has confirmed 1,218 cases of yellow fever and 364 deaths. During the same period in 2016-2017, 779 human cases and 262 deaths were registered, according to the MOH.
Could low antibiotic levels in the environment pose a risk?
A study today in the New England Journal of Medicine reports that childhood mortality in sub-Saharan African communities randomly assigned to mass distribution of azithromycin was lower than in those assigned a placebo. But the authors warn that resistance emerging from mass distribution of the antibiotic could curb or reverse any potential benefit.
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced that Secretary Sonny Perdue has authorized the movement of a modified, noninfectious version of the foot and mouth disease (FMD) virus from the Plum Island Animal Disease Center, off the coast of New York, to the US mainland for vaccine development and research purposes.
On World Malaria Day, global health leaders aired concerns about stalled progress in some regions and recommitted to the battle against the disease.
Also, in a study involving macaques, Zika virus caused fetal death, and monoclonal antibodies proved ineffective.
A study today in Clinical Infectious Diseases tracked two waves of chikungunya infections in Nicaragua, demonstrating that outbreak intensity is linked to more severe clinical presentations of the mosquito-borne disease.
Today the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported 31 more cases of foodborne illness in a multistate Escherichia coli O157:H7 outbreak linked to romaine lettuce. There are now84 ill people from 19 states (3 more states than the last update on Apr 18) identified in this outbreak.
Frequent tampon changing is not recommended to prevent toxic shock, a US expert says.
