Thompson Reuters

“……Venezuela’s infant mortality rate – defined as the number of deaths under one year of age – was 21.1 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2016 – up by 1.4 times the rate in 2008.
This is the equivalent to levels recorded in the late 1990s, meaning 18 years of progress may have been lost…..”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxjw1jJkIb4

NYT

“……Knowing which types of bat carry Ebola may help health officials prevent outbreaks by educating the public about how to prevent contact with the creatures…….”

Takashita Emi, Kawakami Chiharu, Morita Hiroko, Ogawa Rie, Fujisaki Seiichiro, Shirakura Masayuki, Miura Hideka, Nakamura Kazuya, Kishida Noriko, Kuwahara Tomoko, Mitamura Keiko, Abe Takashi, Ichikawa Masataka, Yamazaki Masahiko, Watanabe Shinji, Odagiri Takato, on behalf of the Influenza Virus Surveillance Group of Japan. Detection of influenza A(H3N2) viruses exhibiting reduced susceptibility to the novel cap-dependent endonuclease inhibitor baloxavir in Japan, December 2018. Euro Surveill. 2019;24(3):pii=1800698. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2019.24.3.1800698

Gubareva Larisa V, Mishin Vasiliy P, Patel Mira C, Chesnokov Anton, Nguyen Ha T, De La Cruz Juan , Spencer Sarah, Campbell Angela P, Sinner Mallory, Reid Heather, Garten Rebecca, Katz Jackie M, Fry Alicia M, Barnes John, Wentworth David E. Assessing baloxavir susceptibility of influenza viruses circulating in the United States during the 2016/17 and 2017/18 seasons. Euro Surveill. 2019;24(3):pii=1800666. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2019.24.3.1800666

MMWR

“On September 20, 2017, Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico as a Category 4 storm, with sustained winds of 130–156 miles per hour, and 15–40 inches of rain causing catastrophic flash floods. The storm destroyed electricity and communication systems, left large areas without water service, and caused widespread damage to critical infrastructure, transportation, health care, and agriculture. On the sixth day after the event, 58 (84%) of 69 hospitals on the island had no electric power or fuel for generators (1). The devastation led to declaration of a major disaster, just 10 days after a similar declaration for Hurricane Irma, a Category 5 storm that left 1 million Puerto Ricans without electricity after its center passed approximately 57 miles north of Puerto Rico (2,3). Although the island’s entire population was affected by Hurricane Maria, the poorer, more remote, and economically disadvantaged communities, as well as those with larger numbers of bedridden and elderly persons, fared worse (4) because they had less access to already depleted health care services, more fragile homes, and no alternative means for electricity generation…….”

HxC

22/01/2019 19-1783
MERS in Riyadh city: 66-year-old male in Riyadh city, Riyadh region

Contact with camels: No

Case classification: Primary, community acquired

Current status: Hospitalized

“…..The new cases likely lifts on the global total since 2012 to 2,288 cases, at least 806 of them fatal.….”

DRC