Qatar yesterday reported its second MERS-CoV case this year in a man with no travel history, according to translated information from Qatar's Ministry of Public Health posted on FluTrackers, an infectious disease message board.
A report by CBS's 60 Minutes yesterday alleged that the US company Halyard Health for years sold surgical gowns that it knew were defective, putting healthcare workers at risk for bloodborne infections. In a press release today, the company strongly denied the allegations
Asymptomatic migratory birds may play a role in geographic dissemination as well as facilitate the viral evolution and reassortment of highly pathogenic H5N8 avian influenza, Chinese researchers reported yesterday in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
The WHO's overview of recent Saudi cases shows familiar exposure patterns.
A nonprofit group's annual report on US public health spending says overall funding is still stuck below where it was before the recession of 2008-09, although spending by states may be picking up a bit.
"Federal funding for public health has remained relatively level for years," says the report by the Trust for America's Health (TFAH), based in Washington, DC.
MERS virus was detected in hospital air samples and swabs of hard surfaces during the height of Korea's outbreak in 2015, according to a study today in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Of the 16 cases noted by the WHO, 9 are in Buraydah, 6 proved fatal, and 4 involved camel contact.
The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) today released 27 antibiotic stewardship recommendations to improve patient outcomes, optimize resources, address the growing problem of antibiotic resistance, and more, according to the two groups.
Health officials in Illinois yesterday reported a fatal Elizabethkingia anopheles bloodstream infection, noting that the strain matches the one implicated in Wisconsin's outbreak, according to state and federal sources. With the announcement from the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH), three states, including Michigan, are investigating cases.
Two cases involve camel contact, and Saudi officials report 3 outbreaks in herds.
