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Though the current African outbreak also features sexual transmission, household transmission is also taking place at a high rate.
The index patient is a 32-year-old man who worked as a nurse at a hospital in Kampala and died after seeking care at multiple facilities.
COVID-19 hospitalization was twice as likely as that for flu, and death rates were 3 times higher.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, was asked repeatedly about past anti-vaccine statements in the first of 2 hearings on whether he should be confirmed as HHS Secretary.
Alongside more detections in poultry and dairy cows, the USDA confirmed more avian flu in mammals, including cats and dolphins.
Yet 84% said they would back their state using public funds to provide free or discounted measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines, up from 81% in 2019.
The same DRC province reported an outbreak in 2022, which involved a new jump from animals to people.
A higher white blood cell count was associated with greater severity of post-COVID symptoms.
Hyperuricemia was tied to serious complications such as kidney injury, a higher risk of death during or after hospitalization, and long-term cognitive impairment.
Though mosquitoes are known to carry Zika in Maharashtra state, the 2024 spike in cases was unusual.
By 180 days, the COVID-19 death rate reached 3.1% in the 2022-23 season and 2.9% in the 2023-24 season.
The 3 MIS-C clusters are characterized by: (1) frequent respiratory findings, (2) frequent shock and/or cardiac complications, and (3) all remaining cases.
The KFF poll, conducted earlier this month, also teases out impressions of Trump's health nominees and perceptions about the H5N1 threat.
Some of the latest outbreaks are in Ohio, which has lost nearly 6 million poultry over the past month.
In other developments, the WHO says violence in the eastern DR Congo complicates the country's mpox response and that Azerbaijan has reported its first case.
Rhode Island Hospital at Brown University Health will receive $1 million to demonstrate proof of concept for a test that uses RNA sequencing to detect bacterial pneumonia from whole blood.
One of the 2 infected white-tailed bucks was found near Greenfield in Hennepin County; the other was taken near Hawley in Clay County.
With a total of $100 billion spent, PEPFAR is the largest public health commitment in history by any country to address a single disease.
Meanwhile, H5N1 struck more poultry farms in 11 states, affecting egg producers, broiler farms, turkey facilities, and backyard flocks.
In the 5 years leading up to the pandemic, older adults hospitalized with sepsis were half as likely to experience these outcomes.
