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The agency says the changes are meant to create a "pathway for responsible antimicrobial in different animal health contexts and settings."
Qpex will use the $10 million from BARDA to advance the investigational beta-lactamase inhibitor xeruborbactam.
Direct contact, especially providing nursing care for or sleeping in the same space as the index patient, increased the odds of infection.
Chicago, after recording 64 measles cases and administering more than 30,000 vaccine doses, has passed 2 incubation periods with no new infections.
The agreement will help patients in low- and middle-income countries gain access to the new antibiotics that are often unavailable to them.
Unlike similar earlier cases in the United States, the newly reported patient had respiratory symptoms.
Protection against infection 4 weeks after vaccination was 52%, and against COVID-related hospital illness it was 67%.
"A brief, seemingly innocuous or benign encounter with the virus can still lead to health problems years later," one study author says.
On average, COVID-19 was tied to 2 more days of sick time than influenza.
So far this year, 90 countries globally have reported active dengue transmission, with the Americas as the hardest-hit region.
Children have accounted for the major portion of cases and deaths in an ongoing mpox outbreak in the DR Congo.
The findings come as CDC advisers prepare to meet next week about the composition of upcoming COVID vaccines.
In healthy children with no comorbidities, the absolute risk of critical disease from COVID-19 was 4%.
Breast cancer screening tanked and then rebounded in the first pandemic months, while cancer treatment disruptions varied by race, age, and wave.
The USDA's updated list of H5N1 detections in mammals includes domestic cats in 4 states.
The coalition of global health organizations released a set of recommendations to be considered at September's UN High-Level Meeting on AMR.
Five Americas region countries have now reported Oropouche virus cases this year.
A series of papers in The Lancet examine the scope of the AMR threat, interventions that could reduce AMR deaths, and ways to expand access to effective antibiotics.
Pregnant women had an incidence of PASC of 25.5% compared to 33.9% non-pregnant women.
In other developments, H5N1 was detected in feral cats in New Mexico and more dairy herds in affected states.
