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South Africa has identified 6 new mpox cases in an outbreak that began in late May.
Researchers' other tests found no antibodies in cows in German regions affected by the virus or evidence of virus in milk samples.
The infants showed median reductions in brain volumes of white matter, right hippocampus, and left amygdala.
Protection from booster doses was high, hovering around 75%.
But rates of systemic side effects were similar for men and women after receipt of both types of vaccine.
The treatment remained protective against recurrent C difficile infection in 86% of patients over a span of 2 years despite antibiotic exposure.
A surveillance study found a threefold increase in extensively drug-resistant gonorrhea isolates.
Cases in several Americas subregions are sharply above last year's totals and 5-year averages.
Officials didn't say how the man contracted the virus, but most past cases involved contact with poultry or poultry environments.
Thirty-nine percent of all California mpox cases occurred in Los Angeles County.
The proportion of MRSA isolates declined significantly from 2010 through 2019, but resistance to non–beta-lactam antibiotics rose, particularly in southern states.
The researchers also show that more than 1 in 5 adults had protracted recoveries.
The state is offering affected farms up to $28,000, in addition to earlier announced federal support.
Illnesses have now been reported in 23 of the country's 26 provinces, with the virus causing the heaviest burden in children.
Virus variant type had the greatest influence on developing long COVID.
96% of Veterans Administration hospitals require staff vaccination.
Biotechnology company Elion Therapeutics announced it has closed an $81 million funding round to advance development of SF001, a novel polyene antifungal.
Over 78% were dirty, rendering them unsuitable for sterilization, the authors say.
The authors of the pandemic readiness report point to surges of H5N1 in mammals and of mpox deaths in DR Congo children as some of the latest threats in the face of preparedness gaps.
Gaps include medications for children, convenient oral formulations for non-hospitalized patients, and drugs designed to fight drug resistance, the authors say.
