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A case-control study finds multiple comorbidities, invasive devices, and low functional status are significantly associated with progression from colonization to clinical symptoms.
The money will fund work on CD388, a non-vaccine preventive for both pandemic and seasonal flu.
Treated cloth baby wraps allow targeting of young children, integration with existing cultural norms, and protection against outdoor and daytime mosquito biting, the authors say.
The researchers note an increase in VE of 28 percentage points for a second dose in vaccine-naive children younger than 3 years but none when including children up to 8 years.
Uneven distribution of cases makes it difficult to call the situation a global rise, but ongoing transmission and several risk factors boost the potential for further spread, the WHO says.
The WHO says the pipeline for new antibiotics faces a "dual crisis" of scarcity and lack of innovation and that simpler, faster, and cheaper diagnostics are needed for low-resource settings.
In other developments, South Carolina suspects community transmission in an outbreak in the Upstate region.
The rate of test positivity and percentage of emergency department visits diagnosed as COVID-19 significantly declined in September.
Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin report new detections, part of rising activity over the past several weeks.
The cases include three wild poliovirus type 1 and three circulating variant poliovirus type 2.
Africa CDC also notes cholera surges in Chad, Burundi, and Angola, along with hopeful signs in the DR Congo's Ebola outbreak.
Molecular analysis and epidemiologic detective work helped uncover a hidden One Health connection between human and animal clusters of multidrug-resistant bacterial infections.
The authors call for more research to identify patient groups that could benefit from repeated treatment for COVID-19 after symptom and/or viral RNA rebound.
Prior COVID-19 infection was associated with a 41% increased risk of all-cause dementia.
The 2.5-year-old buck was found about 5 miles from a previous detection in adjacent Lanier County.
The outbreaks are part of an early uptick in H5N1 activity in poultry that began in late August, mainly in the Midwest.
Federal health officials say critical activities related to public health emergencies will continue, but non-critical activities will be significantly affected.
Home-based testing addresses screening barriers and can mitigate the impact of appointment backlogs and scheduling constraints on patients and healthcare systems, the authors say.
The WHO said transmission is now more localized and less explosive than in the initial phase characterized by nosocomial spread and superspreading events.
Less than half, 42%, of the 1,700 respondents, said it was safe to take an mRNA COVID vaccine in pregnancy.
