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The patient's home was near where H5N1 deaths in wild birds and sea lions had recently occurred.
The authors say neither a human nor animal origin can be ruled out.
A retrospective study of US hospitals suggests early switching from IV to oral antibiotics in patients with community-acquired pneumonia is safe but underused.
The dog became ill after playing with a dead goose.
The ECDC said though no clear seasonal circulation pattern has emerged, COVID's impact has been higher in the fall and winter.
The modeling study showed that antibiotic consumption in animals is associated with increased antibiotic resistance in people—and vice-versa.
The risk of hospitalization or death by 28 days was 4.6% among the 2,571 mAb recipients, compared with 7.6% among the 5,135 matched control patients (risk ratio, 0.61).
The relative risks in some UK ethnic groups were higher earlier in the pandemic but shifted toward White, higher-income groups in a later wave.
The off-label use of the product occurred at two Turkish hospitals, and the outbreak has now sickened 87 people.
The policy change would apply to those at highest risk, including people older than 65 and those with weakened immune systems.
Taking substantial sick leave may be a proxy for long COVID, offering another data point for measuring the burden of the complication.
The authors said the findings for the treatment, approved by the FDA in December, are similar to what doctors can expect in clinical practice.
The intervention has the potential to save more than 2,800 days of unnecessary antibiotic therapy a year, the study authors noted.
Officials also reported another death in a confirmed patient, raising the total to 10.
So far, investigators haven't identified a single source of the flour.
One person got sick during pregnancy, resulting in pregnancy loss.
Though illness levels are declining in much of the world, they are on the rise in some countries including India and a handful of Middle East countries.
All of the cases involved vaccine-derived polio strains.
The authors said a range of factors--biological, psychological, or social--might trigger and maintain long COVID symptoms.
Investigators are working to determine the Chilean man's H5N1 exposure, and in Senegal, H5N1 has now infected a poultry flock.
