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Federal officials are closely watching variant shifts ahead of next week's FDA advisory group meeting to recommend strains for fall vaccines.
CDC researchers review 192 C auris–associated hospitalizations, including 38 C auris bloodstream infections (20%), and note a crude mortality rate of 34%.
The biggest declines in the belief "Vaccines are important for children" occurred in the DR Congo (20% decline), followed by Uganda (14%) and Nigeria (10.5%).
The FDA antimicrobial drugs advisory committee unanimously recommended nirsevimab for preventing respiratory syncytial virus in infants during their first RSV season.
A second MMWR report today delves into mpox transmission risks to kids, noting that some adults did not begin to isolate until after they had received a diagnosis.
XBB subvariant activity varies by world region, and spikes fueled by newer versions are coming with fewer hospitalizations and deaths compared to earlier waves.
Cases were reported over a wide area of the country, including many from the province that includes Bata, the country's largest city.
A total of 51% of participants said they lost at least 1 day of work in the previous month, and 20% reported not being able to work at all.
The outbreak has so far sickened 26 people in Illinois, with a few cases in other states.
Narrow-spectrum antibiotic prescriptions rose from 60% during baseline to 78% during the intervention to 92% during the sustainment phase.
Data show patients who suffered heart attacks during initial COVID-19 lockdowns can expect to live up to 2 years less than those who had prepandemic heart attacks.
Study brings light to the complicated relationship between COVID-19 vaccines, parental choice, and public health.
More than three quarters of pediatric consultations resulting in an antibiotic prescription in Madagascar, Senegal, and Cambodia involved a diagnosis that didn't require an antibiotic.
Letermovir was noninferior to valganciclovir in preventing CMV illness through 1 year after transplant (10.4% vs 11.8%).
The white-tailed deer was found near Optima, in the Oklahoma Panhandle, after a Texas County landowner told officials it had been behaving abnormally.
From November 2020 through October 2021, 59% had depression, 60% had anxiety, and 62% reported stress.
Flu and RSV levels are rising to prepandemic levels, with increasing hospitalizations in children younger than 2 years.
A higher proportion of long-COVID patients than control patients had impaired cardiac blood flow (50% vs 27%).
Medical records were searched for 23 serious potential vaccine side effects, including blood clots, seizures, stroke, and myocarditis.
European officials agree that COVID-19 vaccines should be switched for the fall to a single-strain vaccine that contains an XBB lineage strain.
