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The virus was identified in 2% of 988 participants with tick bites.
As a steady polio rise continues in Pakistan, the country has now reported 45 cases this year.
In other outbreak developments, medical groups announce a vaccine allocation plan and a vaccine trial to begin in pregnant women and in children younger than 2.
Over half of participants (57%) reported a history of SARS-CoV-2 infection.
The CDC now recommends testing and prophylactic Tamiflu use in asymptomatic workers exposed to sick animals.
After spiking during the COVID-19 pandemic, rates of HAIs in US acute-care hospitals fell in 2023.
A modeling study estimates the MenACWY vaccine prevented 500 cases of invasive meningococcal disease in US adolescents from 2005 to 2021.
Nasal autoantibodies likely latch on to viral molecules, preventing excessive inflammation.
The case was detected last week in Marshall County, a North Mississippi CWD management zone.
Overall, the risk of developing 28 out of 36 long-COVID symptoms lessened when vaccines were effective.
Researchers find that 10% of children living in an area of high TB transmission developed TB disease by the age of 10.
Since a spillover in October 2023 the novel reassortment has replaced the older clade in Cambodia's poultry.
The average time between discharge and death was 9 days.
The new UK mpox patient is another member of the index case's household.
A systematic review and meta-analysis finds a substantial proportion of infants younger than 3 months in low- and middle-income countries are colonized with resistant pathogens.
The greatest levels of trust were seen among men, those with university degrees and high median outcomes, and those who had lost someone to COVID-19.
Among physicians in Washington state, high prescribers of opioids were 2.9 times more likely to be high prescribers of antibiotics, and vice versa.
The report also spotlights the urgency of vaccines for pathogens such as group A Streptococcus and Klebsiella pneumoniae, which are increasingly resistant to antimicrobials.
Officials say the virus is highly infectious in households with close contact, so the illnesses aren't unexpected.
About 2% of antibiotic prescriptions over the study period were connected to RSV diagnoses, especially in seniors and infants.
