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Overall measles vaccine uptake increased, reaching 86% and 71% for first and second doses by 2019, but dropped in 37 countries and likely dropped in 22.
Extremely and moderately preterm births were lower during the pandemic period, but late preterm births were higher.
The trial to identify correlates of protection for COVID vaccines will take place at about 20 Walgreens sites, ranging from urban to rural.
If approved by federal regulators, clesrovimab would be the second prophylactic monoclonal antibody injection against RSV for babies.
The WHO said Iran's risk is high due to the presence of Aedes mosquitoes and an influx of people from endemic countries.
Through the first half of 2024, the United States, Mexico, Brazil, and Peru are seeing increases in pertussis cases.
The death rate was 17% higher in 2020 than in 2019 in India, implying an estimated 1.19 million excess deaths.
Early results from blood sampling found no evidence of earlier undetected infection in Michigan dairy farm workers exposed to sick cows.
State officials said the boy had eaten plum fruit from the neighborhood before his symptoms began.
GPEI said the viruses are closely related each other and a variant that circulated in Egypt in the last half of 2023.
Compared to influenza, COVID-19 patients had longer ICU stays.
Researchers say the findings suggest oversight of C diff patients by infectious disease specialists may result in better outcomes and resource management.
Researchers found a 43% drop in DR-TB case notifications in a South African province after COVID-19 lockdowns were implemented.
Sixteen of 18 people sickened (89%) reported eating meats sliced at deli counters (not packaged meats).
In the entire cohort, 17,704 infants (5.2%) had a major congenital anomaly.
A randomized trial suggests simple interventions for patients with respiratory illness could reduce illness duration, aid antimicrobial stewardship efforts.
Rural children had longer travel times than their urban peers in all demographic subgroups and both vaccine age-groups.
Two wastewater systems show high levels across most of the country.
Colorado's latest layer farm outbreak occurred not far from where culling workers were infected in a similar event.
2-year-olds showed an altered immune response to childhood vaccines in T-cell expression.
