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The use of complementary respiratory virus tracking tools in schools, including air sampling, may help detect outbreaks.
Prior infection from a clade 2 infection, as well as vaccination, could decrease the impact on at-risk groups.
The latest outbreaks range from Arkansas broiler farms to a California duck producer.
When compared with White counterparts, Hispanic patients had a higher mortality risk.
Further delays would have cost even more lives, the researchers say.
Overall, total mortality increased 77% in 2020 relative to 2019.
After infection, anxiety scores were significantly higher, while depressive distress scores were significantly lower.
The level is slightly higher in school-age kids, but similar to the prepandemic period.
All deer at the facility had earlier been euthanized, and testing revealed no additional CWD cases.
Doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis, or doxy-PEP, could help slow rising rates of chlamydia, syphilis, and gonorrhea, but experts say antibiotic resistance will need to be monitored.
Occupancy decreased for surgical patients when COVID-19 admissions increased, as many surgeries were put on hold.
Utah officials say the prion disease, which is found in deer and other cervids, appears to be spreading in the state.
Pediatric hospital bed occupancy is approaching levels seen last year due to multiple respiratory illnesses.
No serious adverse events were reported during the prone-position procedure.
The outbreak, linked to precut cantaloupe, has now topped 100 illnesses in 34 states.
In its weekly update, the CDC also said five new flu-related deaths in children have been confirmed.
More than a third of young adults were found to have anxiety or depression during the pandemic, and economic and social uncertainty may have played a role.
The state had recently announced the first detections in two other counties, including one that neighbors the newly affected location.
US acute care hospitals saw significant declines in ventilator-associated events, along with central line- and catheter-associated infections.
Catastrophic flooding in Pakistan last year led to a fivefold jump in cases.
