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Over the past few months, Idaho has become the nation's hot spot for H5N1 detections in dairy cattle.
Healthcare workers remain the most trusted sources of information (73%), while trust in the federal government to provide factual information rose to 58%.
Mali, the 20th African country to introduce malaria vaccination, will use a hybrid approach to boost protection during the high-risk part of the season.
In a flu pandemic setting, the drug could be used to curb household transmission, especially early in the response, the authors say.
A 10% decline in vaccine uptake could lead to 11.1 million cases of the highly contagious illness in that timeframe.
In related news, the WHO marks World Malaria Day with a warning that progress against the mosquito-borne disease is stalling.
The steering committee will make recommendations on how non-governmental groups can help ensure that vaccine use is evidence-based.
Protection, however, dropped from 40% to 18% after 120 or more days.
Vaccination was tied to a lower probability of receiving a new dementia diagnosis during the following 7 years.
A study of patients with peripheral intravenous catheters finds a significantly increased risk of BSIs after 3 days of dwell time.
Though confidence in the vaccine remains high, KFF found that misinformation is sowing more doubts.
A modeling study suggests nearly a third of the amount of antibiotics consumed by people globally ends up in rivers.
The most common symptom reported by healthcare workers was fatigue.
More than 35,000 cases of the mosquito-borne disease have been reported on the French Indian Ocean island since August 2024.
The newly identified deer, a 4.5-year-old white-tailed buck, was harvested by a landowner helping the DNR with ongoing sampling.
The highest risk of transmission of SARS-CoV-2 was in the first 72 hours at room temperature and first 24 hours at 37℃.
Overall, efficacy against respiratory syncytial virus infections was highest during season one.
New Mexico and Oklahoma, 2 states with Texas-related spread, also report a few more cases.
In contrast, the proportion who had asthma or severe headache or migraine declined from 2016 to 2022.
The mRNA vaccine targets all major clades of the H5 avian flu subtype.
