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Over 6 months, COVID infection led to 2.24 extra cases of myocarditis or pericarditis per 100,000 children, versus 0.85 per 100,000 after vaccination.
The most common disease trajectories involved mental illnesses and neurologic, respiratory, and metabolic or digestive diseases.
The modeling study predicts the rate of drug-resistant BSIs will rise sharply in Europe over the next 5 years, driven primarily by an aging population.
The intravenous formulation of fosfomycin has a novel mechanism of action and no known cross-resistance to other antibiotic classes.
Data from a phase 2 randomized controlled clinical trial show ensitrelvir accelerated viral clearance in patients with early symptomatic COVID-19.
The authors noted that viral infections trigger the immune system to release substances that lead to inflammation and increase the risk of blood clots.
Those found in coastal South America, Southeast Asia, and equatorial Africa are more likely to carry pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2.
In lab experiments and chickens, peptides derived from a strain of probiotic bacteria inhibited Salmonella strains that commonly cause foodborne illness.
Elsewhere, 2 large poultry outbreaks were reported in Lagrange County, Indiana.
So far the site of exposure is unknown.
In Israel, 2 vaccinated doctors have contracted the virus after treating an infected child.
The COVID-19 vaccine is unique in having this effect on progression to a chronic condition, despite infection, the researchers say.
In a cohort of nearly 350,000 Swiss patients, use of non–beta-lactams before surgery was associated with a nearly two-fold increase in SSI risk compared with beta-lactams.
So far 11 people in 7 states have been sickened.
Findings from a phase 3 trial show Qdenga, Takeda's live-attenuated dengue vaccine, provided 61.2% vaccine efficacy against infection and 84.1% against hospitalization after 4.5 years.
The results are likely to be more relevant to patients in sub-Saharan Africa than to those in high-resource settings, the authors say.
Among US adults, 23% say RFK Jr recommends that kids should get the measles vaccine, 29% say he does not recommend it, and 48% aren't sure.
Our systematic review published this week shows that rigorous, transparent evidence synthesis can persist even when traditional advisory processes falter.
But the overall odds are likely low and may well have ebbed since the pandemic peak.
The 2-dose oral vaccine had an efficacy of 73% in healthy volunteers who were exposed to Salmonella Paratyphi A, which causes paratyphoid fever.
