Candida auris is an emerging fungus that presents a serious global health threat. C. auris causes severe illness in hospitalized patients in several countries, including the United States. Patients can remain colonized with C. auris for a long time and C. auris can persist on surfaces in healthcare environments. This can result in spread of C. auris between patients in healthcare facilities. Most C. auris cases [...]
Abstract Planning for a re-emergent epidemic of smallpox requires surge capacity of space, resources and personnel within health systems. There are many uncertainties in such a scenario, including likelihood and size of an attack, speed of response and health system capacity. We used a model for smallpox transmission to determine requirements for hospital beds, contact [...]
Using the “access,” “watch,” and “reserve” designations established previously, the World Health Organization (WHO) has created a new tool to limit the use of drugs associated with the highest risk of resistance and to increase the use of antibiotics in countries where supply and availability is low. The tool, called AWaRe (for Access, Watch, and [...]
As expected, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) yesterday announced 20 new cases, part of an uptick in activity and transmission that continues in several smaller hot spots, and it added 13 cases today, for a total of 2,181. In developments in Uganda, where three imported cases were recently detected, health officials cleared the [...]
Highlights • Introduction to aerobiology and the significance of indoor air as a vehicle for human pathogens. • Potential negative health impacts from simultaneous or sequential exposure to pathogens and other pollutants in indoor air. • An overview of the workshop’s program and background of the speakers. • A glossary of common [...]
MSF teams are supporting the Ministry of Health to respond to the outbreak in Uganda, in which three people from the same family have died A MSF medical and logistical team is currently in Kasese district, Uganda, where three cases of Ebola were declared since 11 June, all of whom were members of the same family traveling [...]
We rely on antibiotics to treat bacterial infections, but the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria forces doctors and patients to contend with shifting treatment plans. Furthermore, current laboratory tests to determine what bacteria is causing a particular infection takes days to complete and, in cases of serious infection, the results are often too late for the [...]
A global study has uncovered a disturbing level of antibiotic contamination in rivers, one of the prevalent causes of antibiotic resistance. A worldwide study into the levels of antibiotics in the world’s rivers has found that 65% of the 711 sites tested contained at least one of the 14 antibiotics tested for, with concentrations exceeding [...]
This paper assesses the effect of short-term exposure to particulate matter (PM) air pollution on human cognitive performance via a double cross over experimental design. Two distinct experiments were performed, both of which exposed subjects to low and high concentrations of PM. Firstly, subjects completed a series of cognitive tests after being exposed to low ambient indoor PM [...]
Of the estimated 23 million people in the US who have been diagnosed with diabetes, more than 30% take daily insulin injections to control their blood sugar (glucose) levels. Chances are good that someone you know has been startled by the high cost of this medication. The high price of insulin Prices for this essential medication have [...]
