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The team found a modest but statistically significant higher relative risk of having gestational diabetes in those who had COVID during pregnancy.
Effectiveness was consistent across sexes and age-groups: 80% in females, 86% in males, 80% in children, and 83% in adults.
As more groups offer vaccine donations, cases are spiking in Burundi, one of the newly affected countries.
A second study found good protection against hospitalization--although uneven uptake--among pregnant women.
Cambodia, where an older H5N1 clade circulates in poultry, has now reported 18 human cases since early 2023.
As Georgia reports its fifth case of the year, an outbreak in Oregon has grown to 30 cases.
A review and meta-analysis found that the pooled prevalence of carbapenem resistance in bacteria from newborns with suspected sepsis in Africa was 30.4%.
An impaired sense of smell could serve as both a potential marker of virus-induced brain damage and a marker of patients susceptible to brain damage.
Lack of antibiotics and diagnostics, gaps in surveillance, inadequate infection prevention, and limited financial resources are just a few of the hurdles African countries face.
Relative vaccine effectiveness was higher for the adjuvanted flu vaccine among older adults with multiple concurrent high-risk conditions.
Students whose memories were more negative and contained more COVID-19 information fared worse over time.
The CDC has received reports of 11 imported cases and is warning pregnant travelers to affected regions about the risk of severe fetal complications.
Tests on turtles or their environments in California and Illinois were positive for one of the two outbreak strains.
The report contains temporary recommendations, such as regulatory consideration of mpox vaccine approval and planning for vaccine campaigns.
The ECDC said the risk is high for those who have close contact with affected communities and moderate for people who are contacts of imported clade 1 cases.
Seven percent of participants missed more than 10 days of work in the 3 months following SARS-CoV-2 infection.
The finding has important implications amid the heavier floods, more extreme droughts, and greater seasonal precipitation tied to climate change.
Wastewater levels are at the very high level nationally, but show downward trends in the South and Midwest.
Health officials await test results on samples from 3 Gaza children who had acute paralysis onset.
Most of the infections have been acquired abroad, and transmission in England has been limited, but officials are worried about the potential for wider spread.
