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As much as 25% of infections in women are not linked to sexual transmission, new data show.
Study suggests that games with high attendance were tied to county-level COVID-19 surges.
The early flu surge is adding to pressure on health systems as they face other respiratory diseases like RSV.
"This platform will be vital in raising the profile and urgency of addressing AMR."
The Democratic Republic of the Congo has 6 new cases, and Yemen 4.
Listeria monocytogenes has hospitalized 2 people in 2 states.
As of July, less than 4% of US children 6 months to 4 years old had received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine.
The infection lifts the country's total to 141 lab-confirmed cases, 55 of them fatal.
"We see concerning increases in the number of deaths attributable to infections with antimicrobial-resistant bacteria."
COVID-19 patients are 55% more likely to develop epilepsy or seizures than with flu.
Data show a 20% higher risk of developing diabetes following COVID compared to other upper respiratory viruses.
Three of the patients had recent contact with camels.
Implementation of an antimicrobial stewardship program (ASP) across a four-hospital health system was linked to a substantial decrease in the use of fluoroquinolones and increased susceptibility of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Escherichia coli to levofloxacin, finds a
New highly pathogenic avian flu outbreaks have been reported in poultry in six states.
Preschoolers of parents who had been vaccinated against COVID appeared to have 97% protection against Delta and 79% protection against Omicron.
The shorter 6-month regimen could save enough to supply 400,000 people with almost a year's worth of treatment.
Nearly 15% of 62,525 COVID-19 patients had contraindications to the antiviral drug.
In some nations in the Americas, 3 viral diseases are straining hospitals.
Teachers were at 40% higher risk of reporting anxiety than were healthcare workers.
The Maricopa County Department of Public Health (MCDPH) in Arizona this week reported a dengue infection in someone who was probably exposed to an infected mosquito in Maricopa County.
Mosquito surveillance has detected dengue virus in a mosquito trap in one of the county's neighborhood, the MCDPH said in a Nov 14 press release.