Owing to the massive threat that it poses to world health and the economy, antimicrobial resistance has finally started to receive the attention it deserves. But awareness is only the first step; to solve the problem, governments, drug makers, and health-care professionals will have to start taking more concrete action. LONDON – It was Antibiotic [...]
27 NOVEMBER 2017 | SANA'A - WHO has delivered medicines to tackle an outbreak of diphtheria in Yemen, warning that sustained humanitarian access is critical to stopping its spread. The shipment of 1,000 vials of life-saving anti-toxins and 17 tonnes of medical supplies arrived in Sanaa on Monday (November 27) after being stalled by the three-week [...]
External Situation Report 13: 27 November 2017 Due to concerted national and international response the current and unprecedented outbreak of plague in Madagascar, which started on 1 August 2017, has been contained. On Saturday, 25 November the Ministry of Health of Madagascar officially announced the containment of the acute urban pneumonic plague outbreak. However, because [...]
Sydney father-of-two Jeremy Mitchell isn't much of a gardener but when his 10-year-old daughter Erica wanted to plant some flowers, he thought it would be a fun bonding activity. But a few days later, he started feeling unwell. "I had sort of a fever and I thought, I've just got the flu," Mr Mitchell told [...]
GENEVA (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees who fled from Myanmar into Bangladesh are at risk from a possible outbreak of diphtheria, the World Health Organization said in a report published on Tuesday. More than 620,000 people from Myanmar’s Muslim Rohingya minority have fled to Bangladesh since the end of August and are [...]
Abstract There is growing evidence that symbiotic microbes play key roles in host defense, but less is known about how symbiotic microbes mediate pathogen-induced damage to hosts. Here, we use a natural wildlife disease system, house finches and the conjunctival bacterial pathogen Mycoplasma gallisepticum (MG), to experimentally examine the impact of the ocular microbiome on host damage [...]
Atopic dermatitis (AD) has a well-established association with skin colonization or infection by Staphylococcus aureus, which can exacerbate the disease. However, a causal relationship between specific changes in skin colonization during the first years of life and AD development still remains unclear. In this prospective birth cohort study, we aimed to characterize the association between skin colonization and [...]
Abstract Preterm birth is a leading cause of global neonate mortality. Hospitalization costs associated with preterm deliveries present a huge economic burden. Existing physical/biochemical markers for predicting preterm birth risk are mostly suited for application at mid/late pregnancy stages, thereby leaving very short time (between diagnosis and delivery) for adopting appropriate intervention strategies. Recent studies [...]
A drug that is commonly used to treat conditions such as heartburn, gastritis and ulcers could work against the bacteria that cause tuberculosis (TB). The study, led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and UCL and published in PLOS Medicine, found that people who used lansoprazole, as opposed to similar drugs omeprazole or [...]
Scarlet fever, a disease that struck fear into the heart of parents when cases surged in the days of yore, appears to be making an unexpected and puzzling comeback in parts of the world. England and Wales have seen a substantial rise in scarlet fever cases starting in 2014. The number of cases tripled from [...]
