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The true number of African cases might be 98 times higher than official numbers.
The World Health Organization (WHO), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) yesterday published a strategic framework for One Health collaborations on antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
A new systematic review and meta-analysis of three randomized clinical trials with 2,196 patients suggests that early use of the antidepressant fluvoxamine reduces the risk of all-cause hospitalization in symptomatic adult outpatients.
Among SARS-CoV-2 isolates, 99.8% are Omicron, and 93.6% of those are the faster-spreading BA.2 subvariant.
The White House plan includes increased funding, clinician education, bolstered healthcare coverage, and expansion of clinics.
"It is sobering to see how many health care workers are troubled at a moral level."
A study in Israel during the Omicron variant surge finds that rates of COVID-19 infection and severe illness were lower after a fourth dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine than after three doses, and while protection against infection waned quickly after 4 weeks, protection against severe disease was still strong at 6 weeks.
Observational research set to be presented later this month at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) suggests close contact with pets could result in sharing of multidrug-resistant bacteria and resistance genes.
"Given the limited resources countries have, we need a new strategy."
Also, pandemic response coordinator Jeff Zients calls a $10 billion funding package only "a start."
Vaccination is not linked to fetal abnormalities detectable on ultrasound, study finds.
An analysis of antibiotic use for upper respiratory infections (URIs) in Ghana reveals the considerable economic impact of inappropriate prescribing can have on low-resource settings, researchers reported last week in Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control.
Two new studies detail long COVID symptoms, with one from France showing that 85% of patients who had symptoms 2 months after illness onset still had them at 1 year and some symptoms worsened, and one from China revealing that 12% of patients reported rheumatic symptoms at 1-year follow-up.
Adaptive Phage Therapeutics and Venatorx Pharmaceuticals are the first grant recipients.
The outbreak in Texas marks the southernmost spread to poultry so far.
In global COVID news, Shanghai's lockdown will be extended.
A new study in JAMA Pediatrics shows the Omicron variant has caused six to eight times the rate of Omicron infections in US preschoolers as the Delta variant, but cases were less severe with Omicron.
Throat swabs revealed fewer antibiotic resistance genes with shorter treatment.
Studies in Brazil and Sweden show good efficacy against illness and hospitalization.
Incidence was 2 to 6 times higher after SARS-CoV-2 infection than after the second vaccine dose.
