Eighty percent of survey respondents in 10 developing countries indicated a willingness to get a COVID-19 vaccine, compared with 65% in the United States and 30% in Russia, according to a study published late last week in Nature Medicine.
A pilot trial conducted at two emergency departments (EDs) found that audit and feedback with peer-to-peer comparisons reduced antibiotic prescribing for viral acute respiratory infections (ARIs) but not overall antibiotic use, researchers reported today in Open Forum 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).
An international team of researchers has identified a new and always lethal neurologic disease in chimpanzees living in a sanctuary in Sierra Leone. The scientists, including researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, reported their findings yesterday in Nature Communications.
Pregnant women with COVID-19 had a case-fatality rate 13.6 times higher than similarly aged people with COVID, according to a study published this week in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology.
A sample from a white-tailed deer in Wyandot County, Ohio, tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD) Dec 10, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) yesterday, the first in a wild deer in the state. A Daily Record report from May says there have been 21 cases of CWD at three captive deer farms in Ohio since 2015.
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) grew by 2 cases today, bringing the total to 3,420, including 2,240 deaths. Six hundred cases are still under investigation, according to the online Ebola dashboard maintained by the World Health Organization (WHO).
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today a multistate outbreak of Escherichia coli O157:H7 infections tied to contaminated romaine lettuce grown in Salinas, California, appears to be over.
The World Health Organization's (WHO's) online Ebola dashboard shows a case count of 3,392 today, with a single newly confirmed case since yesterday. No new fatalities were recorded, so the death toll remains 2,234.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said a multistate outbreak of Escherichia coli is connected to romaine lettuce grown in the Salinas, California growing region and is advising people not to eat romaine from that area.
