Author: Anna Sundin

The 2014 ESCAIDE conference will be held in Stockholm, Sweden from 5-7 November. The conference will be hosted at the Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre, in the heart of the city. The ESCAIDE programme will offer a huge range of exciting presentations, posters, seminars and workshops on all aspects of infectious disease prevention and control, including epidemiology, public health microbiology, surveillance, vaccinology and tools and methods to assess and mitigate infectious disease outbreaks and support disease prevention.

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The Sixty-seventh World Health Assembly closed today, after adopting more than 20 resolutions on public Health issues of global importance.

Source: WHO

The US and the EU continue to work together to address this growing threat.  The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and The European Commission (EC) have released the first progress report of the Transatlantic Taskforce on Antimicrobial Resistance (TATFAR).

Source: CDC

Source: ECDC

Source: Nature

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In its first global evaluation of surveillance and information on antimicrobial resistance, the World Health Organization (WHO) called attention to increasing levels of bacterial resistance to many common drugs. The report, titled “Antimicrobial resistance: global report on surveillance, 2014” revealed that antimicrobial resistance has spread to all regions of the world, making it clear that “a post-antibiotic era…far from being an apocalyptic fantasy, is instead a very real possibility for the 21st century.” In light of these findings, CDDEP has compiled a list of resources and recent publications related to antimicrobial resistance.
The report has an extensive media coverage around Europe:

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/apr/30/antibiotics-losing-effectiveness-country-who

http://www.faz.net/aktuell/wissen/who-bericht-das-globale-antibiotika-desaster-12917927.html

http://elpais.com/elpais/2014/05/04/opinion/1399231470_088727.html

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Source: Chatham House

In the face of bacterial threats that can evade modern medicines, researchers are trying every trick in the book to develop new, effective antibiotics.

Source: TheScientist