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The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) yesterday announced that a wild fox in Anoka County near Minneapolis has tested positive for highly pathogenic avian flu, which follows similar detections in Canadian foxes that marked the first known wild mammal infections in North America.
Estimated effectiveness of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine against infection in children 6 to 11 years old was 88% at least 14 days after the first dose amid the Delta variant surge, before the emergence of Omicron, finds an interim analysis from a phase 2/3 clinical trial.
Also, 16 US healthcare societies call on federal officials to extend the country's public health emergency.
The results were similar for severe COVID-19 and other severe respiratory infections.
Researchers in Singapore discovered that a Moderna COVID booster following a two-dose Pfizer vaccine series induced a stronger neutralizing antibody response against the Omicron variant in adults compared with an all-Pfizer series, according to a study today in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
A study published yesterday in mBio suggests a diverse, high-fiber diet is associated with fewer antibiotic-resistance genes (ARGs) in gut bacteria.
Excess deaths from external causes were highest in Native people and Black Americans.
The leading hypothesis suggests adenovirus as a cause, but COVID-19 could be a factor.
The head of the WHO warns that rising cases are creating a volatile situation.
A study of three hospitals in New York City found that antimicrobial use in COVID-19 patients during the first year of the pandemic far exceeded the incidence of coinfections, researchers reported today in Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology.
An observational study using a multinational database of 447 maternal COVID-19 deaths in Latin America reveals that over 90% were attributed to acute respiratory failure after severe infection and that 35% of the women who died were never admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU), possibly due to lack of capacity.
Also, the WHO provides updates on avian flu cases in a Colorado man and in a preschooler in China.
The proportion of overweight or obese low-income kids in Ohio climbed from 38% to 45%.
In China, officials in Shanghai are tightening restrictions again in 4 districts where they had recently loosened them.
In a study published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases, researchers showed canine olfaction—or dog sniffing—was both highly sensitive and specific when it came to identifying patients with COVID-19, even those who were asymptomatic or presymptomatic.
A coalition of 70 organizations in Australia is joining forces to combat antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the food and agribusiness industries.
UK officials, meanwhile, tally more cases and add previous COVID-19 as a possible cause.
Budget documents indicate the Biden administration could run out of COVID vaccines by Sep 1.
One study finds 3-dose protection against severe BA.1 and BA.2 disease remaining above 80%.
The alliance aims to boost transparency, communication, quality, redundancy, and production.
