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NEWS SCAN: Salmonella turtle outbreak, Washington pertussis epidemic, drug-resistant malaria

Apr 5, 2012

 

NEWS SCAN: Climate change and foodborne disease, tests for acute gastroenteritis, microchip for detecting flu, malaria and age

 

Groups aim to increase antimicrobial stewardship

(CIDRAP News) – Infectious-disease specialty groups are teaming up to call for increased use of antimicrobial stewardship programs, saying such efforts can help preserve the effectiveness of anti-infective drugs while reducing medical costs.

Robert Roos
 

NEWS SCAN: H5N1 deaths in Egypt, antivirals for flu, rapid flu tests, malaria in Nigerian kids

Feb 28, 2012

 

NEWS SCAN: Intention to receive pH1N1 vaccine, H3N2 in Vietnam, malaria drug approval

Feb 17, 2012

 

NEWS SCAN: Raw milk Campylobacter outbreak, malaria deaths. yellow fever in Africa, chikungunya diagnosis, cell-based flu vaccine

Feb 3, 2012

 

NEWS SCAN: H5N1 efforts in Egypt, H5N1 vaccine in Indonesia, non-drug flu interventions, Gates' Global Fund donation

 

NEWS SCAN: New NBSB members, lessons from measles outbreak, poor-quality malaria drugs

Jan 19, 2012

 

NEWS SCAN: H5N1 death, filovirus vaccine contract, cheap anti-malarial production, Taliban clears polio vaccination

Jan 18, 2012

 

Researchers air new theories about 1918 flu mortality

(CIDRAP News) – Experts who have studied the 1918 pandemic have long puzzled over why the mortality rate in young adults was so high, a feature that might be explained by pathologic immune responses related to previous flu exposure, according to a new theory from a research team.

Lisa Schnirring
 

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