After a rigorous 6-year review, an expert panel declares the region the first in the world to eliminate the disease.
Pertussis immunization with the acellular vaccine offers high protection during the first 3 years, but immunity tapers off significantly over the next 4 years, Canadian researchers reported today in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ).
Investigators from the University of Pittsburgh yesterday reported 3 cases of ceftazidime-avibactam resistance after 37 patients who had carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) infections were treated with the combination, according to a case series in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
For the first time in its history, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) issued a policy paper recommending against all non-medical vaccine expeditions for school-age children. While medical exemptions are still valid, the AAP is asking states to eliminate non-medical exemptions—including for religious or personal beliefs.
The proportion of pediatricians facing parents who refuse to vaccinate their children has grown markedly in recent years, to 87% according to a new survey from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) published today in Pediatrics.
Yellow fever has declined in Angola, with no confirmed cases reported since June, but the disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is spreading to new provinces and new parts of already affected provinces, the World Health Organization (WHO) said today in a weekly update.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said today that its Zika emergency committee will meet for the third time on Jun 14, according to a notice e-mailed to journalists. It said experts will review the implementation and impact of the recommendations it made as part of their declaration of a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC).
A little over a week after reporting the first Elizabethkingia anopheles infection in the state, Illinois health officials yesterday reported 10 more, including 6 deaths, but tests show that the strain is different than the one implicated in Wisconsin's outbreak.
A meta-analysis of 50 studies finds vaccine refusal common in measles, pertussis outbreaks.
Two new H7N9 avian flu infections have been detected in China, both in Guangdong province, and the World Health Organization (WHO) in its latest overview of zoonotic flu infections has noted a handful of recent illnesses from China involving different strains.
