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Among a sample of 107 households with pets and at least one COVID-19–infected adult in Idaho and Washington state, 21% of dogs and 39% of cats had signs of infection, 40% of dogs and 43% of cats had SARS-CoV-2 antibodies, and 5% and 8%, respectively, tested positive on polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing, finds a new study in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
Of 57 hospitalized patients with severe manifestations, most were Black men with AIDS.
Black veterans had lower odds of receiving steroids, immunomodulatory drugs, and antivirals.
An analysis of patients in a California health system found relatively high rates of flu-associated prescribing of select antibiotics in certain age-groups, researchers reported today in Epidemiology & Infection.
Uganda's health ministry today reported 14 more lab-confirmed Ebola cases, pushing the outbreak total to 109. Health officials also reported 2 more deaths, raising the total to 30. Earlier in the outbreak before the first cases were confirmed, the ministry reported 20 suspected cases, all of them fatal.
"If we really want to put COVID behind us, we have to keep the fight together," President Biden says.
Compared with both uninfected people and COVID-19 outpatients, hospitalized COVID-19 patients were at dramatically higher risk for death, a blood clot in a vein, heart failure, and stroke within 30 days, suggests an observational study published yesterday in Heart.
Despite limited data, new WHO report highlights 19 fungi that represent the greatest threat to public health.
The United States is seeing unseasonably high levels of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) cases among children, causing overflowing admissions at pediatric hospitals in several parts of the country.
Age-adjusted US COVID-19 death rates in 2020 were 30% higher in large, central metropolitan areas than in medium-sized cities, finds a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) analysis.
The CDC says BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 are spreading fairly quickly but still make up only a small proportion of all variants.
Diagnostic stewardship focuses not on antibiotics but on reducing urine cultures.
Lab-confirmed cases rise to 90, including 9 more in Kampala, the country's capital and largest city.
"What's needed are vaccines that are durable, with a wide breadth of protection."
Late last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported a further rise in US flu activity, particularly in the southeast and south central regions, along with another variant H3N2 (H3N2v) flu case, this time in a Michigan resident who had indirect exposure to swine at an agricultural fair.
A study published late last week in JAMA Network Open links systemic symptoms—those that affect the entire body—after receipt of two doses of mRNA COVID-19 vaccine with stronger SARS-CoV-2 antibody responses than in vaccinees with no or localized symptoms.
A 5-year-old girl in northern Vietnam tested positive for H5 and is seriously ill.
Vaccine receipt proportions more than doubled in Black people and increased almost 50% in Hispanic groups.
Study adds further evidence that the antiparasitic drug is ineffective as a COVID-19 treatment.
A secondary analysis of results from a phase 3 trial shows that an investigative microbiome therapeutic reduced rates of recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection (rCDI) through 24 weeks and was well-tolerated, researchers reported this week in JAMA.
