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Testing done on samples from about 5,000 deer harvested in last year's hunting seasons in Iowa revealed that 84 deer were positive for CWD.
COVID-19 may act as a disease accelerator, amplifying the risk of a diabetes diagnosis that may have come later in life.
Rates of COVID-19 rebound were similar in patients who did and didn't receive antiviral drugs, and relapse wasn't tied to worse clinical outcomes.
The WHO has abandoned plans for the second phase of its study into SARS-CoV-2 origins because of challenges it faced doing key studies in China.
The teenagers live in the same community that borders Equatorial Guinea, which declared an outbreak yesterday.
The framework has 4 pillars: prevention of infections, access to essential health services, timely and accurate diagnosis, and appropriate and quality-assured treatment.
In a review of the literature going back to the 1980s, experts explore the role conflicts have played in spiking rates of antimicrobial resistance in pathogens.
There were more than 271,000 chikungunya illnesses last year, 95 of them fatal, compared with about 137,000 cases in 2021.
The drug was linked to a reduced 28-day all-cause death rate and fewer emergency department visits for clinically significant relapse.
At least 9 deaths have been reported, along with 16 suspected cases.
The consequences of sticking with current dogma included the loss of many lives and huge economic repercussions, experts say.
SER-109, an investigational microbiome therapeutic for treating recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection, was well tolerated and showed clinical benefit.
Antibiotic prescribing for upper respiratory tract infections increased in the 2 years after COVID-19 lockdown measures were implemented.
The XBB.1.5 subvariant is now dominant in most US regions as a decline in infections appears to be leveling off.
The CDC points out that flu vaccine uptake in children this season is 6 percentage points lower than before the pandemic.
The findings of a multi-country randomized trial suggest the inexpensive antibiotic could be a low-cost strategy to reduce maternal mortality.
Death rates among unvaccinated people were 14 times those of bivalent vaccine recipients.
A review of 52 studies finds ASPs are linked to a 10% reduction in antibiotic prescribing and 28% reduction in antibiotic consumption in healthcare settings.
Twenty-five patients (2.7%) in the interferon group were hospitalized or visited an emergency department, compared with 57 (5.6%) of placebo recipients.
Species include skunk, raccoon, bobcat, red fox, grizzly bear, black bear, tiger, and mountain lion.
