A massive malaria outbreak in Burundi continues, according to the latest update from the World Health Organization's (WHO) African regional office. Since the last update at the end of October, an additional 1.3 million cases and 479 deaths have been recorded, bringing the outbreak total to more than 8.5 million cases.
San Diego-based biopharmaceutical company Qpex Biopharma today announced it will receive a second round of funding from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) to develop a portfolio of antibiotics targeting antibiotic-resistant gram-negative bacteria.
Global funding has reached an all-time high but falls far short of what's needed to eliminate TB.
A new report from the European Court of Auditors (ECA) argues that while some progress has been made, European Union (EU) leaders need to do more to address the health burden of antibiotic resistance.
Neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) participating in a quality improvement (QI) collaborative increased adherence to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) core elements of antibiotic stewardship dramatically and cut antibiotic use by a third, according to a study today in Pediatrics.
The vaccine demonstrated 49.7% protection against progression to active tuberculosis in adults.
Nonprofit drug developer TB Alliance announced today that it will partner with an Indian company to manufacture and commercialize pretomanid for treating extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB).
In its weekly flu update today, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported the first pediatric flu deaths of the new season and noted that the nation's flu activity increased slightly last week but is still at low levels.
A new study in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology describes several cases of colistin-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae infections at a hospital in northern India.
According to the World Health Organization's (WHO's) Ebola dashboard today, officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) confirmed 2 new cases of Ebola in a 14-month-long outbreak in that country, raising the total to 3,250 infections.
As reported yesterday, 117 of the cases are considered probable infections. The DRC's Ebola technical committee (CMRE) has not yet posted information on the four new cases described yesterday.
