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Type 1 diabetes incidence was 8.6 per 100 person-years during, versus before, the pandemic among uninfected participants and 14.0 among the infected.
Of backyard flock samples, 22% tested positive for Campylobacter, compared with 12% of the farm samples, and many were antibiotic-resistant.
In other developments, a challenge study in dairy cows finds that the virus can spread by both mammary and respiratory routes.
But progress was made as well, with global uptake of at least one dose of HPV vaccine in girls increasing to 27% in 2023 from 20% in 2022.
Colorado health officials are closely monitoring and testing workers, and the CDC has a field team on the ground to assist with the response.
The research team identified Staphylococcus aureus in 3% of animal samples, with 18% of them methicillin-resistant.
The avian flu in an elephant seal from Antarctica signals further expansion of the virus in the region's vulnerable wildlife.
Several factors before pregnancy were linked to an increased likelihood of developing long COVID, most notably obesity.
Wastewater levels are now at the high level, as other COVID indicators rise, especially in seniors and in western states.
Migrants, refugees, and internally displaced people have an 84% higher COVID-19 infection rate and a 46% higher death rate, data reveal.
Alongside more dairy herd confirmations, the USDA noted three more H5N1 outbreaks in poultry, all on Minnesota turkey farms.
States continue to report sporadic cases, as the national total rises to 167, according to the CDC's latest update.
Like Pakistan, Afghanistan has now passed the number of polio cases it reported in 2023.
Booker requested answers to six questions from the FDA by September 1, 2024.
The team arrived at 6 target pathogens: the viruses that cause polio, influenza A, influenza B, mpox, COVID-19, and measles.
Only 45% of first reinfections among those who experienced a severe initial infection were mild.
Plague was detected in the 5,000-year-old DNA of at least 17% of the sampled population across large geographic distances.
The effectiveness of nirsevimab against RSV-associated bronchiolitis leading to pediatric ICU admission was 70%.
Mislabeling patients as allergic to penicillin can lead to antibiotics treatments that aren't as effective and problems from overuse of broad-spectrum drugs.
With multiple factors fueling the surge, 9 infant deaths have been reported since cases started rising in November.
