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The latest case raises the country's outbreak total to 9, and the death lifts the fatality count to 6.
Immigrant families living in the United States took some of the hardest economic hits during COVID-19.
Dog-based COVID-19 detection takes only seconds and is free of medical waste.
XBB.1.16 doesn't seem to come with additional health risks compared to XBB.1.5, but it may become dominant in some countries.
Shielded people had a slightly higher known infection rate—5.9% versus 5.7%—compared with controls.
The 11 new cases raise the state's total since the virus was first detected early last year to 12.
The case lifts Equatorial Guinea's number of confirmed infections to 17, which includes 12 deaths.
All isolates were resistant to at least one antibiotic, with the vast majority of Salmonella and Shigella isolates resistant to trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole.
New data show that that 78% of compassionate-use bacteriophage treatments given to patients since 2018 have resulted in a favorable outcome.
The study results were announced at the 35th International Papillomavirus Conference in Washington, DC, this week.
The rate of suicide attempts through poisoning rose 30% in 2021 over prepandemic (2019) rates.
The subvariant could spread globally and fuel increased cases, due its growth advantage and immune escape properties.
The strains are most closely related to variants circulating in humans more than 2 years earlier, the possible result of undetected circulation in the animals.
Very few serious adverse events were reported, and instances of myocarditis were lower than initially reported.
Scientists from Africa, Asia, Europe, and South America are forming a research network that will address the major drivers of antimicrobial resistance.
Also, the WHO posted updates on circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 cases in Burundi and Indonesia.
A total of 3.5% of respondents said they had worse healthcare experiences than people of other races due to discrimination.
The study was based on patients with lab-confirmed COVID-19 seen at 155 Canadian hospitals.
The move supports a recommendation from the Food and Drug Administration.
Among test users, nearly 1 in 4 said they wouldn't have tested if they didn't have the free tests.
