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Researchers with the New York City Health Department say the results suggest real-time veterinary surveillance for carbapenem-resistant organisms is needed.
The group warns that under Kennedy more childhood vaccines will be in jeopardy.
For example, while overall coverage was 82% in Gaines County, the epicenter of the outbreak, school-based rates were as low as 46%.
The 10 locally transmitted malaria cases identified in 4 states in the summer of 2023 were the first in the US since 2023.
The death, in a county where high numbers of West Nile virus-positive mosquitoes and dead birds have been found, is the fifth West Nile virus-related death in the state this year.
Cefiderocol was found to be efficacious in patients with gram-negative bloodstream infections, but more evidence is needed in patients with carbapenem-resistant infections.
An analysis by researchers at Johns Hopkins University finds China supplies US drug manufacturers with more than 60% of the active pharmaceutical ingredients needed to make antibiotics.
The CDC recommends that toddlers receive the varicella (chickenpox) vaccine as a standalone immunization.
In contrast, the condition affected less than 1% of the Swedish population before the pandemic.
A case-control study finds multiple comorbidities, invasive devices, and low functional status are significantly associated with progression from colonization to clinical symptoms.
The money will fund work on CD388, a non-vaccine preventive for both pandemic and seasonal flu.
Treated cloth baby wraps allow targeting of young children, integration with existing cultural norms, and protection against outdoor and daytime mosquito biting, the authors say.
The researchers note an increase in VE of 28 percentage points for a second dose in vaccine-naive children younger than 3 years but none when including children up to 8 years.
Uneven distribution of cases makes it difficult to call the situation a global rise, but ongoing transmission and several risk factors boost the potential for further spread, the WHO says.
The WHO says the pipeline for new antibiotics faces a "dual crisis" of scarcity and lack of innovation and that simpler, faster, and cheaper diagnostics are needed for low-resource settings.
In other developments, South Carolina suspects community transmission in an outbreak in the Upstate region.
The rate of test positivity and percentage of emergency department visits diagnosed as COVID-19 significantly declined in September.
Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin report new detections, part of rising activity over the past several weeks.
The cases include three wild poliovirus type 1 and three circulating variant poliovirus type 2.
Africa CDC also notes cholera surges in Chad, Burundi, and Angola, along with hopeful signs in the DR Congo's Ebola outbreak.
