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Chinese export of active pharmaceutical ingredients has been complicated by pandemic-related supply-chain chaos and, more recently, the lifting of the country's zero-COVID policy.
The case involves an unvaccinated person who attended a religious gathering in Kentucky of about 20,000 people.
Although bacterial co-infections were identified infrequently in hospitalized US COVID-19 patients, they were associated with more than double the risk of death.
The average time for symptom onset between successive cases (serial interval) is 8.5 days, and the time from infection to symptom onset (incubation period) is 5.6 days, new data show.
Since the outbreak began in October 2022, officials have reported 71,748 suspected cases of the mosquito-borne disease.
Israel's health ministry recently reported an illness in an unvaccinated 8-year-girl from Safed.
A quality improvement project initiated in the country's largest safety-net hospital system was tied to significantly fewer inappropriate urine cultures.
From 1985 to 2022, the US government invested $31.9 billion in research yielding discoveries that contributed to the design of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines in 2020.
A WHO spokesman says China informed the WHO about the case, which involves a 53-year-old woman, on Feb 24.
The COVID-19 booster was 74% effective against Omicron infection compared with the primary vaccine series for 3 months, but protection waned to 36% after 6 months.
A meta-analysis finds that short-course antibiotic therapy for ventilator-associated pneumonia did not result in increased recurrence or relapse
The advisory group's strong approval comes a day after it recommended Pfizer's RSV vaccine on a closer vote for the same age-group.
Two new observational studies suggest that COVID-19 vaccination lowers long-COVID incidence and severity.
Global cases dropped 76% over the past 28 days, while deaths were down 66%.
Officials in Cambodia, meanwhile, say 2 recent H5N1 cases do not appear to reflect human-to-human transmission.
The outbreak has sickened at least 63 people in 8 states, and 10 patients required hospital care.
Rates of Enterococcus bacteremia in England rose year-over-year from 2012 through 2021.
The study found more strains of multidrug-resistant E coli in municipal wastewater than in hospital wastewater.
The group raised concerns about a small number of Guillain-Barre syndrome cases in vaccine recipients and wanted more data, especially on efficacy in those at highest risk.
Aircraft wastewater surveillance could be used with traveler-based surveillance to provide an early warning system for COVID-19 and other pathogens.
