CIDRAP newsletters options
The outbreak has now grown to 15 confirmed infections, 11 of which have proved deadly.
Officials weigh in on an H3N8 flu case in China, Togo confirms a pneumococcal meningitis outbreak, and Michigan is grappling with fungal infections tied to a paper mill.
Three condors were found dead from confirmed H5N1 infections, and five others showed symptoms, including neurological problems.
Infected women were more likely to need tracheostomy and ventilation and to have heart attack, sepsis, and blood clots.
The study authors suggest the strain's resistance to ceftriaxone is likely being driven by bystander resistance resulting from the use of ceftriaxone for treatment of gonorrhea.
The top three conditions were anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Peru has identified another paralysis case in a child and is awaiting test results for that patient as well as asymptomatic contacts of the first case.
Federal health officials urge seniors, pregnant women, and those with underlying health conditions to avoid eating raw enoki mushrooms.
In other developments, the WHO added XBB.1.9.1 to its monitoring list, a subvariant that is slowly rising in the United States and other countries.
The 30-day death rate was 5.97% for COVID-19 and 3.75% for flu, for an excess death rate of 2.23%.
Among the probiotic species analyzed, Bifidobacterium animalis and Lactococcus lactis had the highest proportion of ARG-positive samples.
The authors said findings support the importance of vaccinating women during and after pregnancy.
The cat likely contracted the virus from eating meat from exposed waterfowl. In global developments, the virus spread to the southern tip of South America, putting it within range of Antarctica.
RSV activity began in the southeast and worked its way north and west. In its Marburg notice, the CDC said there is no evidence so far that the two outbreaks are connected.
The European Union (EU) Commission plans to publish a draft of the largest overhaul of medical laws in 20 years.
The authors called for a clearer definition of long COVID so that evidence from clinical trials can be reliably applied to evidence-based clinical management.
In the two rare cases, babies had seizures at birth, microcephaly, and developmental delays over time.
The results are nationally representative and overcome limits of earlier estimates, which relied on cross-sectional data and 1-day point prevalence surveys.
Trial results were so compelling that researchers stopped the trial early to give all participants post-exposure prophylaxis with doxycycline.
The proportion of cases in vaccinated patients was much higher than the previous 4 months.
