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Pakistan now has 28 cases of WPV1 this year.
The roadmap was created under the guidance of 50 scientific leaders.
A new report estimates that vaccines could avert more than half-a-million AMR deaths and reduce antibiotic use by 2.5 billion doses annually.
In 25% of hospitals that were staffed below expected levels, there were higher colon surgical site infection rates.
Officials said the outbreak is under control and that 346 people have been immunized so far.
Since the hurricane triggered flooding at the plant in late September, many hospitals nationwide have been rationing fluids.
So far, more than 1,600 people have been vaccinated in some of the DRC's hot spots.
Patients with COVID-19 had a 21% greater risk of heart attack, stroke, and death than people with cardiovascular disease without COVID-19 infection.
The two patients experienced eye symptoms and have no known connections to the state's three earlier confirmed cases.
COVID-19 survivors may experience severe complications that predispose them to more worse outcomes after reinfection, the authors say.
Results from the REVISIT trial show aztreonam-avibactam had similar cure rates as meropenem in patients with serious gram-negative bacterial infections.
A study of long-term care facilities found residents with penicillin allergies were 95% less likely to receive beta-lactam antibiotics.
The protection also held across different strains, for people in their 70s, and for those with underlying medical conditions.
Cases in the region have topped 11.7 million and continue to rise in the Central American Isthmus and Mexico, as the South America faces the start another season.
The authors said COVID-19 infection can result in a "brainstem insult" that results in clusters of physical long-COVID symptoms.
The authors say the finding suggests a risk of sexual transmission but warn against overinterpreting the results.
The steps are part of a broader US response, which has included assistance from the CDC's office in Rwanda and support for vaccination.
Among all patients diagnosed with babesiosis, 41% were co-infected with the bacterium responsible for Lyme disease.
The test joins other over-the-counter COVID-19/flu tests already available under emergency use authorization.
Like two recent California cases, the patient had conjunctivitis after working with sick cows.
