Summary What is already known about this topic? West Nile virus (WNV) is consistently the leading cause of domestically acquired arboviral disease, but other arboviruses cause sporadic cases and outbreaks of neuroinvasive disease. What is added by this report? WNV neuroinvasive disease incidence was nearly 25% higher in 2018 than the median incidence during 2008–2017. [...]
Introduction The emergence of multidrug-resistant pathogens that are difficult, and sometimes impossible, to treat is becoming a global concern for human and domestic animal health [1,2]. Extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Enterobacteriaceae (ESBL-E), carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) and meticillin-resistant (MR) Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) are recognised as a threat to healthcare and patient safety [1]. One of the most recently described [...]
The first death from Legionnaires’ disease related to an outbreak of Legionella at the Sheraton Hotel in Downtown Atlanta was confirmed Tuesday by the Georgia Department of Public Health. There are now 12 lab-confirmed cases of Legionnaires’ disease, including one death, and 61 probable cases, DPH spokeswoman Nancy Nydam said Tuesday. That’s up from 55 [...]
New research has linked the use of prescription drugs for stomach acid to a higher likelihood of developing allergies afterward. Due to the study’s design, the results do not prove that gastric acid reducers — such as proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) — actually cause allergies. In a Nature Communications paper about their work, however, the authors suggest [...]
Abstract Background The emergence of vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (VRSA) represents a challenge for the treatment of staphylococcal infections in both human and animals worldwide. Although VRSA has been detected in several animal species worldwide, data on the bacterial prevalence in dromedary camels and workers in camel slaughterhouses are scarce. Methods We investigated meat samples from 200 dromedary [...]
Abstract Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) caused by Mycobacterium bovis is an important re-emerging disease affecting livestock, wildlife and humans. Epidemiological studies are crucial to identifying the source of bTB infection, and its transmission dynamics and host preference, and thus to the implementation of effective strategies to contain it. In this study, we typed M. bovis isolates from livestock, and investigated [...]
Abstract Exposure to air pollution particulate matter (PM) and tuberculosis (TB) are two of the leading global public health challenges affecting low and middle income countries. An estimated 4.26 million premature deaths are attributable to household air pollution and an additional 4.1 million to outdoor air pollution annually. Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb) infects a large proportion of [...]
Summary Background To end the global tuberculosis epidemic, latent tuberculosis infection needs to be addressed. All standard treatments for latent tuberculosis contain drugs to which multidrug-resistant (MDR) Mycobacterium tuberculosis is resistant. We aimed to estimate the global burden of multidrug-resistant latent tuberculosis infection to inform tuberculosis elimination policy. Methods Credit: Pixabay Read more at Lancet… Download [...]
Franklin County, MO has joined the shortlist of cities and counties requiring hepatitis A vaccines for restaurant workers. A deadly national hepatitis A epidemic touched Franklin County more than 50 times in the last year. And health officials twice had to mobilize to vaccinate restaurant patrons after restaurant workers tested positive for the virus. Hepatitis [...]
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – Three Congolese doctors have been arrested for allegedly planning an attack on a hospital that killed a senior World Health Organization (WHO) epidemiologist involved in the Ebola response, a prosecutor said on Wednesday. Cameroonian doctor Richard Mouzoko was killed in an attack in April on a hospital in [...]
