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Long COVID was tied to a 16% reduced odds of working full time (25% for those with cognitive impairment) and a 23% higher probability of unemployment.
Argentina, Bolivia, Guatemala, and Uruguay reported their first highly pathogenic H5N1 detections in different wild bird species.
Adults hospitalized with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron infections in Switzerland died at 1.5 times the rate of those diagnosed as having influenza A or B.
The company will offer no-cost access to vaccines after the government phases out covering them when the Public Health Emergency winds down in May.
After adjustment for risk factors, adherence to clinical guidelines was identified as a major protective factor.
A meta-analysis finds that antibiotics may be associated with more than a quarter of cases of rare, serious drug reactions that affect the skin and mucous membranes.
Of all participants, 59% had organ damage at 1 year—even those with non-severe infections.
Alternatives to Bacillus Calmette-Guerin are tied to many negative consequences, including adverse effects and premature organ loss.
Experts conclude that sustained incidence of illness in a few nations, along with underreported detection of cases, was enough to maintain emergency status.
Multidrug-resistant Salmonella gradually increased over time in both intestinal and product samples.
People with asthma experienced worse control of their asthma after they had recovered from mild to moderate COVID-19.
Testing done on samples from about 5,000 deer harvested in last year's hunting seasons in Iowa revealed that 84 deer were positive for CWD.
COVID-19 may act as a disease accelerator, amplifying the risk of a diabetes diagnosis that may have come later in life.
Rates of COVID-19 rebound were similar in patients who did and didn't receive antiviral drugs, and relapse wasn't tied to worse clinical outcomes.
The WHO has abandoned plans for the second phase of its study into SARS-CoV-2 origins because of challenges it faced doing key studies in China.
The teenagers live in the same community that borders Equatorial Guinea, which declared an outbreak yesterday.
The framework has 4 pillars: prevention of infections, access to essential health services, timely and accurate diagnosis, and appropriate and quality-assured treatment.
In a review of the literature going back to the 1980s, experts explore the role conflicts have played in spiking rates of antimicrobial resistance in pathogens.
There were more than 271,000 chikungunya illnesses last year, 95 of them fatal, compared with about 137,000 cases in 2021.
The drug was linked to a reduced 28-day all-cause death rate and fewer emergency department visits for clinically significant relapse.
