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The letter was signed by 92 NIH scientists and many more who remained anonymous across all 27 of the agency's divisions.
Estimates varied from 2008 through 2018, with RSV-associated antibiotic prescribing exceeding 10% in peak RSV years and flu-associated prescribing exceeding 20% in peak flu years.
In other developments, Canada reported its first measles death of the year, a premature infant born to an infected mother.
Scientists estimate a precurser to the 2022 strain first emerged in Nigeria in August 2014 and spread to 11 Nigerian states before human infections were detected in 2017.
Population density and tourism are among factors driving infections in Sierra Leone, which made up 53% of mpox illnesses in Africa last week.
A review and meta-analysis finds a 33% pooled prevalence of non-prescription antibiotic use in kids under 5 in low- and middle-income countries.
Pakistan reported a new wild poliovirus type 1 case, while five countries reported cases of vaccine-derived polio.
HHS received a list of 100 ways it could better prepare for and respond to public health emergencies such as pandemics.
The authors also identify a genetic link between the 2022 strain and an epidemic in Germany this year.
A daily dose of trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole did not significantly increase infant birth weight compared with placebo, but it may have reduced preterm births.
Leaders agree to adopt the incident management support team, a tactic that was used successfully to coordinate the region’s response to mpox outbreaks.
The latest case-patient is a vaccinated adult Denver resident who was a passenger on Turkish Airlines flight 201.
Greater gut microbiota diversity and a predominance of beneficial Bifidobacterium longum appear protective.
The findings underscore the need for improved awareness, education, testing practices, and reporting to achieve better patient outcomes, the authors say.
Being born to an obese mother could affect a child's immune system and microbiome.
Analysis of freshwater fish from sites where people actively catch and eat fish found that 2 species of trematodes, a type of flatworm, were prevalent.
Two measles patients this week, a child from New Mexico and an adult from Minnesota, contracted the virus on domestic flights.
The findings underscore the need for continued surveillance to monitor the long-term dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 in deer and the related zoonotic risks.
Sequencing linked the cases to an older H5N1 clade still circulating in India and Bangladesh.
The findings suggest that many signs and symptoms may improve with time.
