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South Africa is experiencing its first spike in clade 2 mpox detections since 2022, and outbreak findings suggest ongoing community spread.
The authors say the virus can bind to both avian and human-type cell receptors but doesn't easily spread through respiratory routes.
There were no significant differences in rates of small-for-gestational-age births or stillbirth.
Depression, anxiety, eating disorders, personality disorders, suicide, and self-harm increased in certain groups.
The patients are young cousins from the same household who had contact with dead poultry before they became ill.
The proportion of cases showing resistance or decreased susceptibility to two different antimicrobials nearly doubled from 2020 to 2021.
A secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial found a probiotic supplement had only a minor and transient effect on the gut microbiome composition of children during and after antibiotic treatment.
Pre-existing sleep disturbances were tied to a 12% increased risk of COVID-19 infection and a 36% increased risk of long COVID.
COVID-19 vaccination may help protect children aged 5 and older against symptomatic asthma, a new study finds.
The researcher also found leftover SARS-CoV-2 RNA in the gut as long as 2 years after infection.
Both infections were linked to international travel, part of ongoing activity amid a global surge in cases.
Pakistan's cases have now passed its total for all of 2023. Meanwhile, Benin, Guinea, and Indonesia reported their first vaccine-derived cases of 2024.
Delirium was tied to 32% greater functional disability and more than double the risk of worse cognitive symptoms in the 6 months after hospital release.
The infected farm worker is from Colorado, which has had the most affected dairy herds in the past month.
Untreated canal water at a cucumber farm in Florida has been identified as one of the sources of the outbreak.
Two more locally acquired dengue cases have been reported in the Florida Keys.
Moderna's work on a prepandemic vaccine began last year, and the new award has an option for large-scale production, if needed.
The benefit was seen in patients with gram-negative bloodstream infections who were critically ill and had non-susceptible organisms.
Low-income adults were less likely to delay or forgo medical care during than before the pandemic.
Death rates rose among adolescents aged 10 to 19 years from 2013 to 2021, but the median death rate in the other countries fell, widening the mortality gap.
