A new study from a team of French researchers suggests that when bacteria acquire plasmids containing drug-resistant genes, they rarely lose them.
The Saudi Arabia Ministry of Health (MOH) reported two deaths from MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) yesterday and today. The fatalities bring Saudi Arabia's total number of deaths from MERS-CoV since 2012 to 608.
As officials probe the source of the infection, mosquito control activities are under way in the area and Zika kits are being distributed.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today reported another outbreak of Salmonella linked to live poultry in backyard flocks, with 287 new cases and 10 previously unaffected states reporting infections. Those cases nearly double the 324 that the CDC reported on Jun 2.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is recommending clinicians and all patient populations stop using the liquid stool softener docusate after the medicine has been implicated in an ongoing, healthcare-related Burkholderia cepacia complex (B cepacia) outbreak.
Infants receive seasonal flu immunity through maternal influenza vaccines, but previous studies have not established how long this protection lasts. A study yesterday in JAMA Pediatrics—the largest of its kind to date—shows that infant immunity peaks by 8 weeks after birth and wanes significantly during the first 6 months of life.
Yellow fever continues to sweep across border areas between Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), according to the World Health Organization's (WHO's) weekly yellow fever situation report.
A study published in the July issue of The Lancet Global Health notes that weakness, fever, distress, and diarrhea were common symptoms in children under the age of 5 years who were being treated for Ebola virus disease (EVD) in West Africa, and many presented without a fever.
The same test is in use at a Houston-area blood center, with some others facilities in the southern United States planning to start testing.
Though the WHO has rejected calls to postpone or move the Olympics, the emergency committee reconsidered the issue again, weighing input from more experts.
