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Heating the milk to 63°C (145°F) for at least 30 minutes and 72°C (162°F) for 15 seconds both inactivated all tested viruses.
Researchers found in-hospital mortality was higher at safety-net hospitals than non–safety-net hospitals, but 30-day mortality was similar.
GBS can follow bacterial or viral infections, and, rarely, follow vaccination.
In other developments, the USDA announced a pilot bulk milk testing program as an option for farmers to monitor herd health.
Unflagged vaccine-skeptical content cut vaccination intent by 2.28 percentage points per user, versus −0.05 percentage points for flagged content.
Wastewater detections are up in the western region, which is also seeing a small rise in test positivity.
The vaccine, called mRESVIA, is available in single-dose prefilled syringes.
The agency says the changes are meant to create a "pathway for responsible antimicrobial in different animal health contexts and settings."
Qpex will use the $10 million from BARDA to advance the investigational beta-lactamase inhibitor xeruborbactam.
Direct contact, especially providing nursing care for or sleeping in the same space as the index patient, increased the odds of infection.
Chicago, after recording 64 measles cases and administering more than 30,000 vaccine doses, has passed 2 incubation periods with no new infections.
The agreement will help patients in low- and middle-income countries gain access to the new antibiotics that are often unavailable to them.
Unlike similar earlier cases in the United States, the newly reported patient had respiratory symptoms.
Protection against infection 4 weeks after vaccination was 52%, and against COVID-related hospital illness it was 67%.
"A brief, seemingly innocuous or benign encounter with the virus can still lead to health problems years later," one study author says.
On average, COVID-19 was tied to 2 more days of sick time than influenza.
So far this year, 90 countries globally have reported active dengue transmission, with the Americas as the hardest-hit region.
Children have accounted for the major portion of cases and deaths in an ongoing mpox outbreak in the DR Congo.
The findings come as CDC advisers prepare to meet next week about the composition of upcoming COVID vaccines.
In healthy children with no comorbidities, the absolute risk of critical disease from COVID-19 was 4%.
