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The FDA's announcement paves the way for people to start receiving the vaccine at pharmacies and doctor's offices.
Tests on samples from bats, bat droppings, and fruit from the village and forested area where the first patient lived turned up no positives.
Bivalent boosters were first recommended for all Americans ages 12 and up in September 2022.
The experimental vaccine is currently being evaluated in a phase 3 clinical trial in patients aged 60 years and older.
The award of $1.75 million will support development of a therapeutic that could restore the activity of commonly used antibiotics for community-acquired pneumonia.
Kids younger than 5 are at risk for severe dengue symptoms, including dehydration and shock.
The proportion of kindergarteners not up to date with vaccinations rose from 6% in 2019 to 7% in 2020, then fell to 6.01% in 2021.
At least 28 countries in Africa plan on adding the malaria vaccine into their routine immunization programs.
There were no significant differences in risk among COVID patients with chronic conditions and healthy immune systems or older unvaccinated patients.
The decision means generic versions of the drug, which is a critical part of shorter regimens for drug-resistant TB, can be made and sold in 134 low- and middle-income countries.
The firms analyzed were Cipla, Hikma, Sun Pharma, Teva, and Viatris.
Trust in physicians and science was associated with not using the treatments.
Last year, the EU backed a plan to introduce poultry vaccination, with France the first to launch immunization.
The first phase of work focuses on an antibody that broadly protects against circulating SARS-CoV-2 variants.
Selling pet turtles less than 4 inches long is federally banned.
A naturally occurring Yamagata lineage flu B virus hasn't been confirmed since March 2020 during the early COVID pandemic months.
Wastewater tracking in the US also showed a downward trend, with a new global update showing a further increase in EG.5 proportion.
The researchers found SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA in coronary atherosclerotic plaques in all patients—regardless of the extent of plaque buildup.
Overall, SARS-CoV-2–associated sepsis was present in 28.2% of patients admitted with SARS-CoV-2.
A study of European data found Salmonella was the most common cause of invasive bacterial infection in children with the disease.
