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Lingering symptoms were tied to elevated risks of recent unemployment, financial problems, and anxiety and depression.
Health officials in Kansas report 6 more cases, while Colorado and Hawaii confirm infections in unvaccinated children and adults.
Clade 1b is fueling a central Africa mpox outbreak, with the Democratic Republic of the Congo seeing the most cases.
A study of 40 female sex workers reveals that a single daily dose of doxycycline is associated with significantly reduced STIs, primarily syphilis.
A 3-year-old girl from Mexico recently hospitalized with H5N1 avian flu has died from her infection.
In other developments, Indiana reported its first case of the year and Colorado reported its second infection.
A surveillance study of 10 US states shows incidence of invasive group A Streptococcus infections more than doubled from 2013 through 2022.
In 2022, user fees made up about 1% of the $1.1 billion foods program budget.
If PEPFAR funding is cut, nearly 500,000 children in Africa may die of AIDS-related causes and 1 million may be infected with HIV in the next 5 years.
Newly affected herds are from Nevada and California.
CWD-positivity in hunter-harvested animals ranged from 2.3% in elk to 29% in white-tailed bucks.
Analysis of daily samples from patients, room surfaces, and healthcare worker hands finds the spread of C diff is more than 3-fold higher than in studies relying only on patient samples.
This marks the third death in the United States this year in patients with measles.
But one study tied the drug to less healthcare use and lower COVID severity in the acute phase among adolescents.
Though no recent poultry outbreaks were reported in that part of Mexico, there were some detections in wild birds.
Earlier patients had traveled to outbreak countries or were contacts of earlier cases.
In an update today, the CDC said 93% of the cases are part of six outbreaks.
More than 6.5 million fungal infections occur annually and cause 3.8 million deaths, and nations lack necessary tests and treatment.
For the seventh week in a row, indicators show that US influenza activity is dropping, but it's still above baseline levels.
The WHO's pandemic exercise was the first test of a new global coordination mechanism called the Global Health Emergency Corps.
