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China is experiencing a surge in H1N1 activity, India is battling H3N2, and flu is still above baseline in the European region.
The detection involves a skunk found in Carter County, east of Amarillo.
The newly signed law requires declassification within the next 90 days and focuses on the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
US healthcare facilities saw a spike in cases and transmission of the deadly, multidrug-resistant yeast in 2020 and 2021.
The patients are from two villages in the northwestern part of the country.
Fitbit tracking and the participant survey found that lower step counts persisted, even after COVID restrictions eased.
The findings underscore the importance of urine testing before starting treatment and considering alternative treatments.
The WHO said Chinese researchers temporarily posted the market environmental sample sequences in advance of publishing their findings in Nature.
Teens who slept less than 7 hours per school night were 17% more likely to report difficulty with schoolwork than those who slept 8 to 10 hours.
About 4,800 lives could have been saved during the winter 2021-22 Omicron wave if just 5% of COVID-19 patients had taken the antiviral drug, modelers estimate.
Of the 400 pets tested, 15% of dogs and 5% of cats were colonized with multidrug-resistant microbes.
Officials are investigating a cluster of severe influenza B infections in kids and teens, some of whom had complications.
Scientists who examined the genetic sequences say they bolster evidence of a spillover from a raccoon dog or other mammal sold at the market.
Black, Latino, and Native American children account for 65% of those who have lost a primary caregiver to COVID-19.
Low- and middle-income countries continue to import significant amounts of the last-resort antibiotic for growth promotion and disease prevention in food-producing animals.
In other avian flu developments, British officials report H5N1 detections in captive South America bush dogs and the US confirms more infections in poultry and mammals.
The pregnancy-related death rate shot up faster in 2021 than in 2020, nearly doubling from rates in 2019 and hitting racial minority women hard.
Six children in the DR Congo and 3 in Burundi have polio cases linked to the novel oral polio vaccine type 2.
Local scientists and their colleagues from the CDC detail 2 cases of locally acquired dengue in November 2022 in Maricopa County.
Injectable methotrexate, cisplatin, fluorouracil, and Pluvicto are in shortage, with no definitive end in sight.
