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A study conducted at a Veterans Affairs hospital found that high-touch surfaces harbored several opportunistic pathogens despite routine disinfection.
Researchers saw an impact lasting as long as 12 months, while noting that hospitalization numbers were also low in unvaccinated teens.
Reinfected participants had a higher likelihood of having pancreatic disease.
A study of two large, integrated health systems found a high incidence of outpatient CDI, despite limited testing of patients with diarrhea.
Animal health groups had warned about the risk of spread to the the region's wildlife.
The initial trial will likely last 18 months, with the next phase expected to take place in a Nipah-affected country.
All patients were hospitalized, with eight needing ICU care.
Estimates after 3 years of clinical use suggest nOPV2 is 80% less likely to seed new variant polio outbreaks.
Of COVID-positive respondents, omnivores had a higher rate of moderate or severe disease than the plant-based group (18% vs 11%).
Seventeen percent of children ages 5 to 11 with sickle-cell disease had been vaccinated, compared with 25% of their counterparts.
The most common adverse event was mild to moderate injection-site pain, which was reported by 60% of vaccinated participants
De-escalating to a narrower-spectrum antibiotic was found to be non-inferior to continuing empiric therapy with antipseudomonal beta-lactams.
The fatal neurodegenerative infection was confirmed in a hunter-harvested cow elk in Elk Hunt Area 28 in late December.
Since January 1, outbreaks have already led to the loss of 1.66 million poultry.
Fall 2020 brought the biggest upheaval in public school enrollment in US history, with a 2.8% decline in public school enrollments.
Vaccine efficacy against ICU admission was 85% to 91% in adolescents amid the Omicron variant period.
The most common symptoms at 2 years were fatigue, memory loss, trouble concentrating, and insomnia.
COVID is at higher-than-expected levels in some parts of South America.
Influenza A currently makes up the majority of global detections, with H3N2 most common among subtyped samples.
Investigators say the dose of linezolid may have been too low and the duration of treatment too short.
