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Good news, bad news on US antibiotic use and resistance

(CIDRAP News) – Research groups offered a mix of bad news and good news today on antibiotic usage and resistant microbes, including big geographic differences within the United States, as a large coalition of health and medical groups vowed to increase efforts to conserve the nation's arsenal of effective antibiotics.

Robert Roos
 

NEWS SCAN: Meningitis hearings, ECDC coronavirus report, MRSA in wastewater, melioidosis & glanders recommendations, undetected viruses

Nov 6, 2012

 

NEWS SCAN: US West Nile cases, MRSA in wildlife, Novartis flu vaccine stoppage in Italy

Oct 24, 2012

 

NEWS SCAN: West Nile cases rebound, coronavirus case detailed, preventing bloodstream infections, polio worker killed, patient infection-control education

Oct 17, 2012

 

NEWS SCAN: AAP and food safety rules, peanut plant inspections, MRSA in livestock locales, social marketing to fight disease

 

NEWS SCAN: Prison-brew botulism, Uganda Ebola outbreak over, antimicrobial keyboard covers, rabies contact tracing, Australian measles

Oct 4, 2012

 

NEWS SCAN: Mango-linked Salmonella, Ebola outbreak update, MRSA and C diff control, Mexican H7 flu cases, TB genotyping, ASPR Twitter app

Sep 14, 2012

 

Policymakers plot next pandemic flu preparedness steps

(CIDRAP News) – US influenza policy experts who gathered in Washington, DC, today called for better vaccines and other steps for improving pandemic and seasonal flu preparedness, themes echoed in an action plan released by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA).

Lisa Schnirring
 

NEWS SCAN: Babesiosis mapping, Salmonella update, cholera in Cuba, MRSA infections, smallpox vaccine indications

Jul 12, 2012

 

NEWS SCAN: Cambodia's mystery disease, community-onset MRSA, UN food standards, polio battle, malaria prevention

Jul 5, 2012

 

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