Yesterday member states at the World Health Assembly (WHA)—the annual meeting of the decision-making body of the World Health Organization (WHO)—adopted a resolution calling for continued high-level commitments to implement and adequately fund multisectoral national action plans addressing antimicrobial resistance, the WHO said in a news release.
The study supports WHO guidance for conserving vaccine during shortages.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported a new MERS-CoV case today in the city of Jeddah. The notice came in an epidemiologic week 20 notification.
The patient is a 73-year-old man. The source of his MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) infection is listed as "primary," meaning it is unlikely he contracted the virus from another person. He did, however, have recent contact with camels.
A gastrointestinal illness outbreak involving several different pathogens linked to oysters imported from Mexico has sickened 16 people in 5 states, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced today.
Two people have been hospitalized, and no deaths have been reported. The illnesses began Dec 16, 2018, and Apr 4 was the most recent onset.
The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) recently recorded a new case of MERS-CoV in Riyadh in an epidemiologic week 18 update.
A 59-year-old man from Riyadh was diagnosed as having MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus). The man's case is listed as "primary," meaning he likely did not contract the disease from someone else. It is unknown if he had recent contact with camels.
The World Health Organization (WHO) office in Nepal yesterday shared more details about the country's first human H5N1 avian flu infection, a fatal case first reported by local media outlets.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today posted a final investigation update for a Salmonella Reading outbreak that it first announced in July 2018, which reflects 79 new cases since its last report in February, lifting total cases to 358 in 42 states.
Yesterday the University of California, Los Angeles and California State University, Los Angeles campus announced a quarantine of 280 students and faculty exposed to students who have measles, according to news reports.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) health ministry today reported another double-digit rise in Ebola cases, raising the overall total to 1,353 illnesses, according to its daily update.
The 13 cases are all from current epicenters: Katwa (5), Vuhovi (4), and 1 each in Butembo, Mabalako, Masereka, and Beni. Also, health officials are still investigating 68 suspected cases.
The MCR-1 colistin-resistance gene has been detected in Salmonella strains isolated from mussel samples in Spain, researchers reported yesterday in Eurosurveillance.