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The CDC is terminating $11.4 billion in grants and contracts awarded to state and community health departments for COVID-19 response.
The genotype in the Texas outbreak has also been identified in samples from patients in New Mexico and Kansas.
The odds of receiving a job offer rose from 2010 to 2022, but the proportion reporting a good job market fell.
Officials have confirmed 131 cases this year in four countries, 53 of them fatal.
UK health officials say 17 cases of ceftriaxone-resistant gonorrhea were reported from January 2024 to March 20, 2025, compared with 16 in all of 2022 and 2023.
The United States is now approaching 400 measles cases this year.
None of the samples were positive for H5N1 antibodies, but some showed earlier infection from human seasonal flu strains and swine flu strains.
The death-rate ratio of adults aged 70 years and older and children younger than 5 years climbed globally, with the Western Pacific Region experiencing the largest increase.
Gepotidacin is the first in a new class of oral antibiotics for uUTIs in nearly 3 decades.
A review and meta-analysis finds mass biannual azithromycin distribution reduced mortality by 15% in children ages 1 to 5 in sub-Saharan Africa.
Other trends included worrisome rises in tuberculosis, measles, and pertussis.
Relative to HPV-negative participants, those with HPV had a 40% higher risk of cardiovascular disease and twice the risk of coronary artery disease.
So far 40 people have been hospitalized in the Texas outbreak, and 1 unvaccinated child has died from her infection.
Researchers found that roughly 30% of chlamydia and gonorrhea patients did not receive treatment, while only 14% and 39% received recommended antibiotics.
But there weren't enough well-designed studies to determine whether vaccination lowers the odds of long COVID for kids or for adults with weakened immune systems.
The detection came less than a month after the state began its bulk milk sampling program.
Only treatment within 10 days of COVID-19 diagnosis was associated with lower risk.
The ratings aren't intended as a detailed threat assessment and don't indicate which pathogen is most likely to trigger the next pandemic, but instead are a guide for research investment.
A breath test would be less invasive than the traditional method of using mucus or phlegm samples from the lungs of CF patients.
The infected white-tailed deer was found in the Prince William County, Virginia, part of the park.
