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Complicating factors could include other infectious diseases, such as meningitis, and the impact from a lack of medical care.
In other measles news, Kentucky has reported a case in an adult who had recently traveled internationally.
The owners told authorities that they fed their cats Wild Coast Raw pet food, the same brand implicated in recent feline illnesses in Oregon.
A study of 151 patients with carbapenem-nonsusceptible infections found treatment with imipenem/cilastatin/relebactam was successful in 70% of cases.
Biosecurity support, streamlined financial relief for farmers, and vaccine and therapeutics investment are among the key steps.
In participants with long COVID, greater lung perfusion correlated with increased chronic fatigue severity.
The trial is evaluating the safety and efficacy of MTBVAC, a single shot, live-attenuated TB vaccine, in people with latent TB in 3 countries.
The unvaccinated, school-age child was hospitalized in Lubbock.
The number of sudden cardiac arrests and sudden cardiac deaths before and during the pandemic wasn't significantly different.
The 2 patients exposed to poultry had severe infections, with H5N1 confirmed only from lower respiratory tract samples.
The new funding round targets therapeutics for gram-negative bacterial infections and rapid diagnostics for typhoid fever.
Baiting and feeding encourage deer to congregate around a shared food source, risking the transmission of CWD through direct contact or environmental contamination.
The overall protection against long COVID from vaccination is likely even higher, because these estimates don't account for infections prevented by vaccines, the authors say.
Illnesses have been occurring since 2018, mainly in nursing home residents, with the latest cases reported this year.
Only 11% of survivors resumed full-time work by 6 months, while 12% went back to part-time work.
Nine of the state's counties have now reported cases, though most infections are from the Gaines County epicenter.
Cases in Cambodia have been on the rise, many of them fatal and some involving a novel reassortant.
In other H5N1 developments, the USDA confirmed detections at live-bird markets in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Portuguese biotechnology company Immunethep is receiving $2 million from CARB-X to develop a conjugate peptide-based vaccine against E coli.
A study of primary care patients in 5 European countries finds the mean antibiotic course duration for common respiratory infections was 7.5 days.
