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Six states reported more highly pathogenic avian flu outbreaks in poultry flocks over the past few days, including three that reported large losses in commercial poultry, according to updates from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS).
The outbreak is unusual in its scale and seasonality.
Compared to 2020, mortality rates due to COVID-19 among young adults increased significantly in 2021.
A large international study found antibiotic use in newborns was disproportinate compared with the burden of early-onset sepsis.
The research team was surprised at how prevalent stigma was, with levels higher in those with a clinical diagnosis.
Flu activity is very high or high across most of the continental United States.
The changes target racist and stigmitizing language surrounding a term that came into use in 1970.
The agreement paves the way for bold, specific committments at a UN high level AMR meeting in 2024.
The latest case is the stillborn baby of a mother who survived Ebola.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Originally published by CIDRAP News Nov 23
The boosters confer 28% to 56% more protection against symptomatic infections than 2 to 4 doses of the original vaccines, a new study estimates.
Protection against Omicron reinfection was lowest, at 60%.
Of 35 million who have gotten their booster shots, 16 million were seniors.
Data that are not yet peer-reviewed indicate that a single Jynneos vaccine dose provides 78% protection against monkeypox 14 days or more after vaccination.
Canada saw an increase in the sales of antibiotics for use in food production animals in 2020, a new report finds.
Amid a shortage of the antibiotic amoxicillin, the American Academy of Pediatrics has issued guidance on alternatives to the oral powder formulation for suspension.
The trial will investigate whether an early IV-to-oral transition improves outcomes in patients with gram-negative bloodstream infections.
Adult US COVID-19 patients who received the antiviral drug Paxlovid within 5 days after diagnosis had a 51% lower hospitalization rate than nonrecipients.
The latest outbreaks put the nation's poultry losses for the year at 50.5 million, which ties the record set in the outbreaks of 2015.
The phase 3 trial will test the efficacy of ganaplacide/lumefantrine-SDF against standard treatment, including against drug-resistant malaria.
