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News Scan for Sep 11, 2020

Report shows steep declines in antibiotic use on British poultry farms

A report this week from the British Poultry Council (BPC) shows steep reductions in antibiotic use in recent years.

  • Antibiotic use falls in UK poultry
  • Orphan drug designation for antibiotic peptide
  • Five more DRC Ebola cases
  • More polio in 5 countries
  • Avian flu in Vietnam

News Scan for Sep 04, 2020

Early trials of Russian COVID-19 vaccine show safety, immune response

Today The Lancet published the results of two nonrandomized trials (called Sputnik V) of a Russian COVID-19 vaccine candidate, which showed no serious adverse events and demonstrated that the vaccine elicited an antibody response in study participants within 21 days of administration. The phase 1/2 trials were conducted in 76 healthy adults.

  • Russian COVID-19 vaccine data
  • Prioritizing COVID vaccines
  • CWD not spread in ticks
  • Polio in 3 countries
  • Avian flu in Russia

News Scan for Sep 01, 2020

Strategy proposed for testing deer, elk herds for chronic wasting disease

A "proactive hunting surveillance" approach of shooting and testing deer likely to harbor the causative agent of chronic wasting disease (CWD) without leading to undesirable population declines achieved a 99% CWD-free rate within 3 to 5 years, in comparison to 10 years using the typical preemptive sampling strategy, according to a Norwegian modeling study published today in Nature Communications.

  • New approach to CWD control
  • Cutting carbapenem use
  • Flu shots—again—not tied to autism
  • Polio in Sudan

News Scan for Aug 28, 2020

New DRC Ebola case brings outbreak total to 107, including 47 deaths

One more Ebola infection has been confirmed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Equateur province outbreak, raising the overall total to 107, the World Health Organization (WHO) African regional office said on Twitter today.

  • New DRC Ebola case
  • More Salmonella tied to peaches
  • Polio in 6 countries

News Scan for Aug 25, 2020

COVID-19 spread noted in 'healthy' concertgoers 2 days after infection

Seemingly healthy people with COVID-19 can spread the disease to others as soon as 2 days after infection, an analysis of a coronavirus cluster traced to four live music clubs in Osaka, Japan, shows.

  • Asymptomatic COVID-19 spread
  • Sex-specific COVID immune response
  • Heart attacks and flu
  • Africa free of wild poliovirus
  • Yellow fever in Senegal

News Scan for Aug 21, 2020

WHO warns about Ebola outbreak in DRC as cases reach 100

Cases in the Ebola outbreak in western Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have reached 100, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported today, with cases nearly doubling in the past 5 weeks.

  • Ebola outbreak hits 100 cases
  • Polio outbreak in Yemen

News Scan for Aug 14, 2020

ICD-10 codes for common COVID-19 symptoms inaccurate, study finds

Standard, symptom-specific international disease codes lack sensitivity and have poor negative predictive value (NPV) for characteristic COVID-19 symptoms, which could skew conclusions derived from them, a cohort study published today in JAMA Network Open shows.

  • Symptom coding for COVID-19
  • Coronavirus in pregnancy
  • China COVID vaccine data
  • New DRC Ebola cases
  • Polio outbreak in Sudan

News Scan for Aug 07, 2020

Asymptomatic and symptomatic COVID-19 patients show similar shedding patterns

Patients with confirmed asymptomatic COVID-19 infections shed virus at similar levels to those who are experiencing symptoms, underscoring the importance of public health actions to control the spread of the virus, researchers from South Korea reported yesterday in JAMA Internal Medicine.

  • Asymptomatic shedding in COVID-19
  • Ebola in the DRC
  • Polio in 4 countries
  • Avian flu outbreaks in poultry

News Scan for Jul 31, 2020

Kids 5 and younger could spread COVID-19 as much as adults, study finds

Children younger than 5 years with mild or moderate COVID-19 have much higher levels of coronavirus genetic material in their nose and throat than do older children and adults, according to a research letter published yesterday in JAMA Pediatrics.

  • Kids as COVID-19 conduits
  • Ebola in the DRC
  • Polio in 4 countries
  • H3N2v flu case in Hawaii

News Scan for Jul 24, 2020

Plague outbreak in DRC sickens 45, some with pneumonic symptoms

A plague outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that began on June likely involves all three types, including pneumonic, and has so far resulted in 45 cases, 9 of them fatal, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday in a statement.

  • DRC plague outbreak
  • More DRC Ebola cases
  • Polio in 3 countries
  • Biobank for drug-resistant bacteria
  • Sepsis risks, antibiotic benefits

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