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The proportion of overweight or obese low-income kids in Ohio climbed from 38% to 45%.
In China, officials in Shanghai are tightening restrictions again in 4 districts where they had recently loosened them.
Also, the WHO provides updates on avian flu cases in a Colorado man and in a preschooler in China.
In a study published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases, researchers showed canine olfaction—or dog sniffing—was both highly sensitive and specific when it came to identifying patients with COVID-19, even those who were asymptomatic or presymptomatic.
A coalition of 70 organizations in Australia is joining forces to combat antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the food and agribusiness industries.
One study finds 3-dose protection against severe BA.1 and BA.2 disease remaining above 80%.
The alliance aims to boost transparency, communication, quality, redundancy, and production.
Shanghai says its outbreak is under control, but Beijing tightens measures in a hot spot district.
UK officials, meanwhile, tally more cases and add previous COVID-19 as a possible cause.
Budget documents indicate the Biden administration could run out of COVID vaccines by Sep 1.
Over 40% of 79 stool samples from COVID-19 patients admitted to one of four hospitals in Spain contained SARS-CoV-2 RNA but no live virus, suggesting a negligible ability to replicate in this medium and a very low likelihood of fecal-oral viral transmission, finds a study published yesterday in Scientific Reports.
The World Health Organization (WHO) today issued a report highlighting the threat of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and the role that infection prevention and control (IPC) programs can play in reducing that threat.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Blood culture rate fell 33%, and broad-spectrum antibiotic use dropped 13% in PICUs.
Data suggest the real COVID-19 number is nearly 3 times higher than officially reported.
Neither vaccine requires extreme cold chain storage, which makes them appealing for low-resource areas.
A study of more than 160,000 COVID-19 tests of South African healthcare workers concludes that two doses of the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) and Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines are about 71% effective against hospitalization caused by Omicron 1 to 2 months after the second dose, with little waning at 5 months or longer.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has reported one more Ebola case in its latest outbreak in Equateur province in the country's northwest, raising the total to three, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) African regional office.
Meanwhile, the CDC reissues a mask recommendation for public transit.
The findings aren't markedly different from interim results published in February 2021.
