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Physicians and nurses received the highest ratings for providing general health information, with about half of respondents saying they trusted them "a great deal."
The US is finalizing a plan to ease screening of travelers from China, the World Bank is short on pandemic funds, and the UK announces a spring booster plan.
Long-COVID patients were more likely to have reflux, peptic ulcers, pancreatitis, dyspepsia, gastritis, irritable bowel syndrome, and other GI conditions.
A study suggests a multidrug-resistant bacteria outbreak that sickened 4 patients and killed 3 was likely linked to a commercial water purification system.
The most common untruth was not telling someone who was going to spend time with their child that they knew or suspected the child had COVID-19.
An unpublished study involving nearly 150,000 COVID-19 survivors who had mild infections in Salt Lake City suggests that many still had chest pain 6 months and 1 year later.
About 63% were prescribed empiric antibiotics, but only 7% had bacterial co-infection, and only 3% had a respiratory bacterial co-infection.
In Salmonella bacteria isolated from humans and food-producing animals, resistance to ampicillin, sulfonamides, and tetracyclines remained at high levels.
Screening patients for Clostridioides difficile colonization was not useful for preventing C difficile infection, Dutch researchers report.
The patient may have contracted the waterborne amoebic disease from sinus rinse practices using tap water.
Tedros urged countries to share what led to their virus source assessments with the WHO and the science community so they can take steps to prevent future outbreaks.
Long-COVID patients had more blood clots in the lungs, ischemic stroke, coronary artery disease, and other cardiovascular conditions.
Chinese export of active pharmaceutical ingredients has been complicated by pandemic-related supply-chain chaos and, more recently, the lifting of the country's zero-COVID policy.
The case involves an unvaccinated person who attended a religious gathering in Kentucky of about 20,000 people.
Although bacterial co-infections were identified infrequently in hospitalized US COVID-19 patients, they were associated with more than double the risk of death.
The average time for symptom onset between successive cases (serial interval) is 8.5 days, and the time from infection to symptom onset (incubation period) is 5.6 days, new data show.
Since the outbreak began in October 2022, officials have reported 71,748 suspected cases of the mosquito-borne disease.
Israel's health ministry recently reported an illness in an unvaccinated 8-year-girl from Safed.
A quality improvement project initiated in the country's largest safety-net hospital system was tied to significantly fewer inappropriate urine cultures.
From 1985 to 2022, the US government invested $31.9 billion in research yielding discoveries that contributed to the design of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines in 2020.
