Black or other ethnic minority women in the United Kingdom make up 56% of all documented hospitalized cases of COVID-19 in pregnancy, according to a new study published in The BMJ.
Twelve cases have now been reported in a new Ebola outbreak in northwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), up from eight last week. The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed in an email today that there are 12 cases in Equateur province, which includes 9 confirmed and 3 probable infections. Five deaths have been reported.
The index patient is a 27-year-old woman who died in a Wangata hospital on May 18, and a teen girl also died.
The cases are in Equateur province, the same area hit by an Ebola outbreak in 2018.
Data collected from Canadian acute care hospitals show significant increases in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant Enterococci (VRE) bloodstream infections (BSIs) in recent years, according to a study in the Canada Communicable Disease Report (CCDR).
An assessment of community antibiotic prescribing in French children found high rates of prescribing for viral respiratory tract infections (RTIs) and broad-spectrum antibiotic use, particularly among clinicians 50 years and older, French researchers reported yesterday in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.
The nearly 22% of US counties with higher proportions of black people accounted for 52% of COVID-19 cases and 58% of related deaths, according to a study published late last week in the Annals of Epidemiology.
The researchers accessed public data on Apr 13 to compare predictors of COVID-19 infections and deaths in counties with 13% or more black people and those with lower percentages.
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) reported one more Ebola infection, raising the number of recent cases in Beni to seven.
The patient is a 39-year-old woman who had been in isolation since her daughter died from Ebola on April 20, Reuters reported yesterday. Her illness raises the outbreak total to 3,462, including 2,267 deaths, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) online dashboard.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in an update yesterday that it has concluded its investigation into a 10-state outbreak of Escherichia coli linked to contaminated clover sprouts that sickened 51 people, up 12 from the agency's Mar 19 update.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has tracked two new Ebola cases, raising the outbreak's resurgence total to five cases that have emerged just as the country was poised to announce an end to an outbreak that began in August 2018.
