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The Hospital Sepsis Program Core Elements aim to help hospitals organize staff, identify resources, and structure their sepsis programs so they can rapidly respond.
Data show that 41% of 29 patients who developed a postviral syndrome showed evidence of a previous COVID-19 infection.
Of the West Nile virus cases, 69% were neuroinvasive, which included encephalitis, meningitis, and acute flaccid paralysis.
Southeast Asia's flu levels remained elevated, including in Cambodia, Myanmar, and the Philippines.
The prevalence of malaria parasites with validated or candidate resistance markers reached more than 20% in 11 of 16 districts.
Interest in getting the newly approved RSV vaccine varies by factors such as age and underlying health status, according to a survey of older US adults.
Caregivers with lower levels of education reported more stress during the first 2 years of the pandemic.
One of the big questions is how well the variant evades immunity from earlier infection or vaccination.
The combination of the RTS,S/AS01E vaccine and preventive drugs was superior to the drugs or vaccine alone in preventing the mosquito-borne disease.
Amoxicillin and clindamycin were the most prevalent antibiotics prescribed (63% and 14%, respectively).
The vast majority of patients had community-onset invasive E coli (94%) and required hospitalization (97%), with 32% of patients needing ICU treatment.
The study focused on the population of Tsimane, a voluntarily isolated community in Bolivia that is more than 60 miles from the nearest market town.
The case involves a 27-year-old woman from Sichuan province, marking China's fifth H5N6 case of the year.
The WHO guidance replaces temporary recommendations, Florida has 15 dengue cases now, and Connecticut confirms 4 people infected with the tick-borne Powassan virus.
The report from the Access to Medicine Foundation calls responsible antibiotic manufacturing both a "moral imperative" and a business priority.
COVID-19 ICU admissions decreased for preschoolers, but the need for mechanical ventilation in hospitalized children that age remained steady.
Only 35% of the 80 studied long-COVID signs and symptoms became nonsignificant 2 years after infection among hospitalized veterans.
FDA's approval is for use of the vaccine, called Abrysvo, at 32 to 36 weeks gestational age of pregnancy.
The BA.2.86 sequence was from Virginia, and the patient had traveled from Japan and was asymptomatic.
Of the funding, $1 billion goes to 4 BARDA research partners to support phase 2b clinical trials of vaccine candidates.
