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The highest rates of influenza A/B (21%), influenza A (17%), and influenza B (20%) were observed in Asia and Europe.
In a related development, Ugandan scientists who sequenced the virus say they don't see a link to the country's 2022 outbreak.
San Diego health officials warn of possible TB exposure at a high school during the 2023-24 academic year.
Twenty-three European nations have seen a rise in carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae bloodstream infections since 2019.
One of the two adult bucks was harvested by a hunter, and the other was identified on a deer-breeding farm.
Among confirmed cases in the DRC, children 15 years and younger account for 49% of cases.
Investigators with the endTB trial say the 9-month, all-oral drug regimens will make it easier for patients with rifampicin-resistant TB to complete the full treatment.
But HHS and other organizations have taken actions to alleviate the shortages, which began with the 2008-2009 recession.
Sixteen more flu deaths were reported in children, with virus activity at high or very high flu levels across much of the nation.
In related developments, West Virginia officials suspend poultry exhibitions and Massachusetts warns of sick and dead birds across several cities.
The Fremont County deer was found west of Percival, near the Missouri River, while the Pottawattamie County deer was taken northwest of Avoca.
Ten people have now died in Tanzania's Marburg outbreak.
Senators pressed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on past statements he's made suggesting a link between autism and the MMR vaccine.
A total of 7% of patients in the corticosteroid group died within 30 days of diagnosis, compared with 9% in the placebo group.
Though the current African outbreak also features sexual transmission, household transmission is also taking place at a high rate.
The index patient is a 32-year-old man who worked as a nurse at a hospital in Kampala and died after seeking care at multiple facilities.
COVID-19 hospitalization was twice as likely as that for flu, and death rates were 3 times higher.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, was asked repeatedly about past anti-vaccine statements in the first of 2 hearings on whether he should be confirmed as HHS Secretary.
Alongside more detections in poultry and dairy cows, the USDA confirmed more avian flu in mammals, including cats and dolphins.
Yet 84% said they would back their state using public funds to provide free or discounted measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines, up from 81% in 2019.
