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In patients with catheter-associated asymptomatic bacteriuria caused by multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas, antibiotic treatment was a significant risk factor for subsequent infection.
Shoring up pet food safety plans to account for H5N1 and enhanced preslaughter turkey flock surveillance comes in the wake of raw products linked to cat infections.
Experts fear the move could undercut US and global efforts to monitor and respond to infectious disease outbreaks.
The support is designed to speed development of well-matched H5N1 vaccines and pave the way for vaccines against other potential pandemic threats.
Researchers observed lower rates of use among Black and Hispanic patients than among White patients.
So far all 25 suspected case-patients have tested negative for the virus but remain under close surveillance.
The UK mpox patient had recently returned from Uganda, where clade 1b is spreading in the community.
Outpatient visits for flu are trending down, but the CDC said this is not likely an indication that the flu season has peaked.
In general, air quality was good, but in crowded areas in which people raise their voices to be heard, carbon dioxide levels were high.
In DRC hot spots, vaccination will target the greater community, not just contacts. A trial of the antiviral drug brincidofovir also launched in the country.
But only 20% said they sought treatment, mainly because of difficulty getting time off of work and worries about confidentiality and cost.
Shionogi will receive $375 million to develop a long-acting protease inhibitor designed to prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection in people who are immune compromised.
Dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine and sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine combined with amodiaquine reduced malaria incidence by 94% and 96%, respectively, compared with a control group.
Chad, Ethiopia, and Nigeria all reported new cases of vaccine-derived polio.
Federal officials also touch on the hand-off to the Trump administration, as tests confirm avian flu in several more poultry flocks and at a Chicago zoo.
In children both with and without CZS in the exposed group, worse outcomes were seen if exposure occurred in the first trimester of pregnancy.
Macaques exposed to doses of the 2.3.4.4b clade of H5N1 via the nose and windpipe had more severe disease.
Global health groups encourage further follow-up testing and share more details about the initial cases.
The study authors say the findings suggest healthcare workers could be "unrecognized reservoirs" of pneumococcus in the population.
The animal was found dead on the Scab Creek Feedground in Elk Hunt Area 98 at the end of December.
