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In other developments, the WHO has more talks scheduled with China and will soon update its variant assessments.
The team from South Korea also found high protection against critical illness.
In other global developments, Japan's COVID deaths are at daily record highs, and India shed light on its subvariant picture.
After accounting for the drop in in-person services and the rise in telehealth services, the overall use of mental health services rose during the pandemic for three diagnoses.
Data reveal no link between COVID-19 vaccination or infection of pregnant women and major congenital anomalies in their babies.
Infected mammals include skunks, grizzly bears, a raccoon, and a red fox.
New report indicates that farmers in many countries are still using medically important antibiotics for growth promotion.
Survey finds a high rate of hospital antibiotic use, with more than a quarter of antibiotics used for infection prevention.
A high proportion of broad-spectrum antibiotic use could be replaced by narrower-spectrum or no antibiotic use, researchers report.
The CDC fine tuned its projection for XBB.1.5, which is still spreading quickly, mainly in the northeast.
Among MIS-C patients, 8% had complications affecting 6 or more of the 8 studied organs.
Antibiotic residues were widely detected in aquatic environments, but were highest in wastewater and wastewater treatment plants.
Though many indicators declined, a 3-week-long drop in hospitalizations leveled off.
One study looked at BA.5 infection after vaccination, while another examined vaccine effectiveness in children and adolescents.
The patient is from Hunan province's capital city, and the report didn't detail any poultry exposure.
The new cases are from Algeria, the Central African Republic, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Though the findings are promising, researchers are still examining the benefits and drawbacks of the one-dose strategy.
COVID-infected workers were less likely to work on site than those who had other respiratory diseases, and about 6% of infected employees with telework experience worked on site while sick.
BioVersys AG has a pipeline of novel antibiotic candidates targeting unmet needs.
Vaccination rates among US children aged 5 to 17 years varied widely by race as of August 2022.
