Vygenerované: 24.06.2026 21:48:23
Súhrn: DAKAR/JOHANNESBURG, June 24 (Reuters) - The Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo is still outpacing response efforts, and frontline health workers there face very risky conditions, World Health Organization officials said on Wednesday The outbreak of the rare Bundibugyo strain of Ebola has infected over 1,000 people in Congo and 20 in neighbouring Uganda, reaching the highest first-month total of any episode of the disease The WHO's Abdirahman Mahamud said health workers continued to face "abduction threats, crimes and being in the wrong place at the wrong time", citing seven incidents in which they had been targeted.
Doplnenie: "Despite the good progress we have made, we still face major challenges, and the outbreak is continuing to outpace the response," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a press conference from the organization's headquarters in Geneva that was broadcast online.
Súhrn: For more than a decade, the first national stool bank, OpenBiome, filled a critical need, providing a product that could — often with just one dose — reverse acute Clostridioides difficile, and prevent its recurrence, but that era has definitively come to an end, leaving clinicians and perhaps tens of thousands of patients in the lurch In new final guidance, the FDA reaffirmed a 2013 proclamation that it views fecal microbiota transplant (FMT) as a drug, not as a human-derived product like blood or a tissue or solid organ transplant Gastroenterologists and patient advocates had held out hope the agency might follow a blood bank type model.
Doplnenie: They met with former FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, MD, in early 2025 in a failed bid to convince the agency to adopt that approach.