The Australian government late last week released a One Health Master Action Plan (OHMAP) to support the country's 2o20 antimicrobial resistance (AMR) strategy.
Provincial health officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC's) North Kivu province yesterday reported two more Ebola cases, one of them more than 90 miles from Butembo, the main epicenter, according to Reuters.
The new cases raise the outbreak total to six, with the number of deaths remaining at two. One of the new patients is from Katwa, about 6 miles from Butembo. The other is from Manguredjipa, about 93 miles away.
The WHO is deploying 100 staff and, for Guinea, has released $1.25 million to support local control efforts.
Almost one in five meat processing workers in Nebraska contracted COVID-19 from April to July 2020, but after facility-wide mitigations and strategies were put in place, new cases appeared to decrease, according to an Emerging Infectious Diseases report yesterday. The researchers found that men and Hispanic/Latinos showed the highest burden in case numbers and severity.
COVID-19 patients in a Warsaw, Poland, hospital had a significantly lower mortality rate when treated with convalescent plasma, especially early, according to a study published yesterday in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases.
Six people who attended a funeral had Ebola-like symptoms, and 2 died.
A revised antimicrobial prophylaxis protocol for patients on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) was associated with reduced broad-spectrum antimicrobial use in those patients, without increased risk of infection or poor outcomes, researchers from the Mayo Clinic reported today in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
A second fatal Ebola case was reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), in a person from North Kivu province, where the first case was recently reported in the wife of an Ebola survivor, according to media reports that cited a joint statement from the DRC and the World Health Organization (WHO).
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) yesterday announced a new Ebola case, its first since September, which involves a woman who died from her infection in Butembo, one of the main hot spots in the country's 10th outbreak that was centered in North Kivu and Ituri provinces.
Merck's Ervebo vaccine is currently the sole stockpile product, with a planned-for 500,000 doses.
