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Meanwhile, new clinical findings from Tokyo suggest that asymptomatic mpox cases are underestimated.
States are keeping residents posted on warm-weather infectious disease threats, some water-borne and others spread by mosquitos.
Hospitalizations rose last week for the first time since January, with a few counties in three states now at moderate levels.
A study of ambulatory antibiotic prescriptions in a large medical system found a higher proportion of prescriptions for not-in-person visits were inappropriate than those for in-person visits.
Australian researchers developed a model that predicted hospitalizations, which could give facilities 1 to 4 weeks to prepare for influxes.
Of positive flu samples at national labs, 68.5% were influenza, and of subtyped samples, 66.2% were the 2009 H1N1 virus.
The rate of series completion of two doses was similar for intradermal or subcutaneous administration, at 60.2% and 58.8%, respectively.
News of a human case came shortly after health officials warned that sick pigs were at the Oakland County Fair.
Of 235 biomarkers studied, only higher levels of kidney injury molecule-1 (KIM-1) were associated with lower odds of COVID-19 hospitalization.
The new outbreak facilities produce foxes, mixed-breed foxes, mink, and raccoon dogs.
The newly added medications include pretomanid, a new drug for highly resistant TB, as well as bedaquiline, linezolid, and moxifloxacin.
BWC0977 has shown the potential for patients with serious infections caused by pathogens that are resistant to multiple classes of antibiotics and are increasingly difficult to treat.
The condition is mainly linked to bites from the lone star tick, which are most common in the South and Midwest.
As Finland reported more fur farm outbreaks, Norway reported H5N1 in a fox and Germany detected the virus in a seal.
Adoption of wastewater surveillance to inform public policy is not widespread, in part because of problems interpreting results.
Vitals changes tracked by the smartwatches reflected the clinical course, which appeared to vary by vaccination status.
The single-center study suggests that hospital sinks and showers may play in spreading carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales (CPE).
Patient interviews suggest ground beef bought from the same grocery chain, and an investigation into the source is underway.
The team will study more than 16,000 isolates collected from 50 US nursing homes to identify key sources and drivers of multi drug resistant-organism spread.
In the small phase 1 study, children received a single dose of the live attenuated nasal vaccine.
