A "real-world" analysis of flu vaccine effectiveness (VE) today in Eurosurveillance that included 2 million Stockholm County, Sweden, residents each season found low flu VE in general but surprisingly robust results in two of the four seasons in adults 65 years and older who had chronic conditions.
Jack Payne Woodall, PhD, 81, died Monday at his home in London after a battle with pancreatic cancer. Woodall might be best known for cofounding ProMED (Program for Monitoring Emerging Disease) in 1994, the online outbreak reporting system run by the International Society for Infectious Diseases, according to a Stat obituary today.
Melinta Therapeutics yesterday submitted a New Drug Application (NDA) to the US Food and Drug for the approval of intravenous and oral Baxdela (delafloxacin), an antibiotic for the treatment of bacterial skin and skin structure infections.
Saudi Arabia reported three more MERS-CoV cases yesterday and today, one of them a fatal case that is linked to what appears to be a hospital-related outbreak in Hofuf.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported a new MERS-CoV case, the country's fifth in 6 days.
A multistate outbreak of Escherichia coli infections tied to Adams Farm beef, veal, and bison products appears to be over after 11 cases, which is 4 more than when the outbreak was first reported last month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today.
With the World Health Organization (WHO) set to name a new director-general in May 2017, the editors of The Lancet sat down with the six candidates running to replace Margaret Chan, MD, MPH, as the head of the world's only multilateral health agency.
The 2014-15 outbreak of H5N8 avian flu in Europe and then North America was likely driven by long-distant migrant birds and an unusually "promiscuous" clade, a study published today in Science found.
Malaria deaths in Africa have dropped by more than half in the past 15 years, but some countries still struggle with high malaria mortality rates, according to a study yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
In addition, the WHO reports 2 new H5N1 cases in Egypt.
