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A total of 9% of placebo recipients contracted COVID-19 from a household member, compared with 3% of ensitrelvir recipients, for a 67% risk reduction.
Burn victims are being treated at hospitals throughout Europe, and officials are urging proper precautions be taken to protect against the spread of resistant bacteria.
Hospital researchers say the observed increase in clinical cases of the multidrug-resistant fungus mirrors national trends.
Malaria, HIV, and TB programs are already feeling impacts from the cuts, with scale-backs also depleting healthcare services in Afghanistan.
The studies suggest that: (1) rural residence, certain conditions, and nursing home residency raise the risk of hospitalization and (2) most household spread is from kids to adults.
Nine percent of people who described themselves as permanently sick or disabled had long COVID.
20 more people in the West Texas region have measles.
The CDC is tracking growing proportions of dengue serotype 4 in travel-related infections.
Researchers found "exceedingly high" levels of gonococcal tetracycline resistance in 8 African and Asian countries.
Wyoming's Horse Creek becomes the 4th elk feeding ground in the state to test positive since January, and Louisiana's Catahoula Parish reports the first case in wild deer outside of Tensas Parish.
Amid economic and food supply concerns, officials continue to track animal detections, and scientists assess pathogenicity and treatment.
Only 4% of survey respondents report having consumed raw (unpasteurized) milk in the past year.
Overall incidence of infections caused by 6 antimicrobial-resistant pathogens declined from 2012 through 2022, but hospital-onset cases significantly increased during COVID.
Lower risks for vaccinated participants were also seen when restricting the analyses to the pre-Omicron and Omicron periods, sex, age, or previous infection.
So far, the West Texas outbreak has resulted in at least 259 measles cases.
The North American lineage H7N9 virus was last detected in US poultry in 2017.
Grant County, in the northeast part of the state, was added to the state's CWD containment area in 2015 because it is near other counties with CWD-positive cases.
Though effective for other pathogens, the aging process didn't inactivate H5N1 avian flu virus in most raw cheese samples.
Texas has added 36 new measles cases, pushing the US case count to 301.
From 2021 to 2023, 23% of participants developed long-COVID symptoms, with 56% of those infected in 2021 reporting symptoms for 2 years.
