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The authors estimate the cost of narrowing the oxygen gap at $34 billion over the next 5 years but called it a highly cost-effective investment with far-reaching effects.
The latest update includes a case from Lubbock County, pushing the number of affected counties to 5.
Six countries have reported H5N5 in birds and mammals since the first of the year.
The women, ages 72 and 56, were both from Guangdong province in southern China.
Contact monitoring is still under way for 216 people who are at quarantine facilities located throughout the country.
In other developments, Zoetis announced it has received USDA's conditional approval for its updated poultry vaccine.
The vaccine had a similar favorable safety profile as a placebo.
Of the 13 outbreaks with confirmed cases of foodborne illness, all but 1 involved either Listeria, Salmonella, or Escherichia coli.
The infected woman, who is hospitalized, was likely exposed to H5N1 through contact with her infected backyard poultry flock.
Among patients prescribed doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis, cases of syphilis, chlamydia, and gonorrhea fell by 86.4%. 89.7%, and 54.7%, respectively.
The two adult female elk were found dead in January and early February, respectively, at the Dell Creek feeding ground.
New Mexico now has 3 cases in Lea County, which borders a Texas county where a larger outbreak is under way.
Experts say the move is very concerning for public health, particularly amid the growing measles outbreak in neighboring Texas.
The CDC says it's now classifying the flu season as high severity for all age-groups for the first time since the 2017-18 season.
Officials with Africa CDC said the USAID funding freeze is disrupting the transport of samples from suspected cases to labs.
The job losses at the CDC are part of a broader reduction of about 5,200 positions across other government public health agencies, including the NIH.
Officials say additional cases are likely to occur in Gaines County and the surrounding communities.
As the virus struck more layer and other commercial poultry farms, state wildlife officials continue to warn about wild bird detections.
Review of data from the trial found that the vaccine was not sufficiently effective at preventing invasive E coli disease compared with placebo.
Analysis of data from 537 US hospitals reveals that ceftolozane-tazobactam and ceftazidime-avibactam are the most frequently used new antibiotics.
