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The study looked at 3 surges of COVID-19 activity, including 2 before vaccines were widely available.
Hospitalization and deaths are becoming more accurate markers, as countries scale back on testing and case reporting.
Incentives for manufacturers and hospitals, and a buffer inventory, are needed, a new report says.
Cases caused by Campylobacter, Listeria, Salmonella, and Shigella stayed the same, but those tied to Cyclospora, Escherichia coli, Vibrio, and Yersinia rose.
Sampling suggested that Omicron COVID-19 cases were up to 19 times higher than reported because of changes in clinical testing.
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky accepts ACIP recommendations regarding the use of flu vaccines for the 2023-24 season.
Nineteen of 50 swimmers experienced diarrhea beginning 3 days after their return from a training trip to Puerto Rico.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Wellcome will provide $550 million for a phase 3 trial of a vaccine to prevent tuberculosis.
The agenda highlights 5 themes: transmission, integrated surveillance, interventions, behavioral insights and change, and economics and policy.
A single-center study in Canada finds a low incidence of bacterial infections in infants with viral infections, including SARS-CoV-2.
Moreover, the study shows the spike protein's affinity for type A cells may be amplified by the Omicron strain of the virus.
Scientists find 4 species of coronaviruses, including 2 novel ones, in UK bats, but experts say they pose little risk to people.
The guidelines continue to focus on hand hygiene and proper cleaning of hospital equipment but elevate stewardship to an essential practice.
Antibiotics significantly reduced bacterial diversity and altered the gut microbiome of infants in low- and middle-income countries.
The DNR aims to focus restrictions on areas at greatest risk for the spread of chronic wasting disease.
In Australia, clinic visits for flu increased, and in South America, flu declined in Chile but rose in Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay.
Following Brazil's first detection of high-path H5N1 avian flu in wild birds in early May, the country confirms its first outbreak involving poultry.
An adult in Montezuma County, Colorado, has been infected with plague bacteria, likely on private property.
More than 1 million COVID-19 cases were confirmed in Hong Kong when Omicron swept through a largely immune-naïve population.
The CDC said malaria infection is a medical emergency that requires rapid testing and treatment.
