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The newly affected counties, identified during the April 2024 to March 2025 CWD surveillance season, include Cedar, Davis, Shelby, Story, and Wapello.
Children and adolescents were at higher risk for new-onset mild and moderate chronic kidney disease from 2020 to 2023.
In US NICUs, incidence of invasive Staphylococcus aureus infection was 20 times higher in very low birth weight infants than in those weighing 3.3 pounds or more.
The patients are from three different provinces, two of them children and one of them a 35-year-old woman.
Adults with RSV acute respiratory infections face an almost threefold higher risk of death within 1 year of infection.
Only the monoclonal antibody tocilizumab and convalescent plasma were linked to a higher risk of certain adverse events.
Nearly half of the AMR-related deaths were in children in Southeast Asia and Africa.
In other H5N1 developments, the WHO releases surveillance guidance for human cases, and the USDA announces new funding to mitigate livestock diseases.
Overall, 58% were prescribed antiviral drugs, and, among those, 80% had them dispensed.
But prison populations remained about the same during the entire crisis.
The approval is the first for a chikungunya-endemic country.
The CDC says cases have now been reported in 25 jurisdictions, though most are part of 7 outbreaks.
The CDC confirms 20 new pediatric flu deaths, bringing the season's total to 188.
Relative to controls, children and adolescents who had COVID-19 were at significantly greater risk for cardiac conditions such as high blood pressure, abnormal ventricular rhythms, myocarditis, and heart failure.
In 2 randomized clinical trials, an order-entry alert based on patient-specific risk factors was tied to reduced empiric use of extended-spectrum antibiotics.
The deer in Adams County, in west-central Illinois, is the first documented case outside of the state's northern CWD-endemic region.
The World Health Organization says 17 cases of IMD have been linked to the annual pilgrimage to Mecca.
In Uganda, the virus is spreading in urban areas and among sexual networks, posing contact-tracing challenges.
Leaders from the APHA and the Treatment Action Group call for resignation or removal, as a biomedical group raises questions about core FDA functioning.
Of the nearly 3,100 people, businesses, and other entities the Department of Justice charged with fraud as of December 2024, more than 2,500 were found guilty, and more than 2,100 were sentenced.
