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Two states have now found Listeria in unopened liverwurst packages, and genetic sequencing shows a link to the outbreak.
MIS-C is becoming more and more rare as COVID-19 becomes endemic.
As a novel clade spreads to the DRC's neighbors, it and other African countries are battling outbreaks involving two earlier clades.
The dogs were able to identify infected deer through feces samples.
In a policy brief, the WHO says governments need to ensure adequate resources for antibiotic R&D and foster innovation.
After the early months of the pandemic, antibiotic use at VA hospitals declined, even through subsequent COVID waves.
In related developments, Colorado's governor recently extended an emergency declaration that frees up more resources to battle the outbreaks.
In more than half of Veterans Affairs patients hospitalized for pneumonia over 8 years, the diagnosis of pneumonia changed between initial presentation and hospital discharge.
Between June 2019 and June 2023, AMI hospital encounters dropped by 20%.
Nipah virus, which has a high fatality rate, is a top target for countermeasure development.
In the latest variant update, the CDC said the proportion of KP.3.1.1 jumped from 14.4% to 27.8% over the last 2 weeks.
Over the weekend South Africa said it now has 22 cases of the virus.
The number of ED visits increased across the study period.
Brazilian officials are investigating a virus role in fetal deaths and microcephaly reports.
The girl's illness marks Cambodia's ninth H5N1 case of the year.
The latest confirmations also include more wild birds and small mammals from Weld County, a Colorado hit hard by dairy cow and poultry outbreaks.
A universal oral vancomycin prophylaxis protocol at a New Jersey hospital was linked to a significant drop in C diff infections in hematopoietic stem cell transplant patients.
Some of the cases have been caused by what researchers are calling "clade 1b," a new mpox lineage identified in the DR Congo last year that is highly transmissible.
CEPI and the WHO urge scientists and political leaders to bolster research to prepare for the next pandemic by focusing on families of pathogens and select pathogens.
The case raises the number of states with documented chronic wasting disease in deer and other cervids to 35.
