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Reports of human H5N1 cases in Cambodia have been on the rise since the end of 2023.
Yet less than one third of patients received antiviral drugs, perhaps owing to provider concerns about drug-related adverse effects or drug-drug interactions.
Iowa's patient is an unvaccinated adult, and Nebraska's is a vaccinated child who had not traveled outside the state.
The move comes just 1 week after the FDA announced that the vaccine would now be offered only to adults 65 years and older or those with underlying conditions.
The 19 low- and middle-income countries experienced 28,000 congenital rubella syndrome cases—78% of the world's cases—in 2023 alone.
Experts say illnesses don't seem more severe and more studies are needed to further assess the risk of antibody escape.
This is the first H5N1 human case reported in mainland China since July 2024.
Texas and New Mexico report more outbreak cases as other states raise alerts about exposures linked to new illnesses.
Togo's outbreak brings Africa's number of affected countries to 25, amid exponential spread in Sierra Leone.
The United States has been in a "protracted health crisis" for decades, the researchers say.
The long distances that whales often travel could further spread the disease, increasing exposure to people and wildlife.
The agency told vaccine makers that COVID-19 vaccines used in the US starting in fall 2025 should be based on JN.1 lineage strains, preferably the LP.8.1 strain.
An industry group responds, "Other than clean water, arguably nothing has done more to improve public health than vaccines."
Costs varied across 5 European countries, driven primarily by repeated primary care visits and parental work absences.
The group weighed considerations about newer variants and raised concerns that a strain recommendation might interface with the FDA's new proposed COVID vaccine framework.
A total of 11% of RSV patients experienced a cardiac event, abnormal heart rhythm, heart failure, or ischemic heart disease.
The VIP piece poses a number of questions to the FDA in light of the new rules.
Runny nose and congestion were negatively associated with moderate to severe illness.
A comparative effectiveness study finds that patients treated with laLGPs had similar outcomes as those who received standard-of-care antibiotics.
The ARTIC 2.0 project will expand use of a low-cost, real-time genome sequencing technique used to detect COVID-19 variants to conduct surveillance on a wider variety of pathogens.
