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Four states, including hard-hit Minnesota, reported more highly pathogenic avian flu outbreaks, pushing the nation's poultry losses to more than 28.8 million birds from 29 states.
The findings, of course, do not suggest infection is preferred over vaccination, which is much safer.
Given our polluted world, "the association may be of great significance to public health," one author says.
Though at-risk people are strong candidates, "For every COVID-19 vaccine dose recommended, uptake declines," a CDC official says.
An increase in resistance to ciprofloxacin among poultry isolates was primarily due to Salmonella Infantis.
A randomized controlled trial found that suppressing androgen hormones in male COVID-19 patients hospitalized with the virus did not improve outcomes. The study was published yesterday in JAMA Network Open.
The H5N6 avian flu virus has sickened one more in China, a man from Sichuan province in the country's southwest, Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection (CHP) said today.
The 56-year-old man's symptoms began on Mar 31, and he was hospitalized on Apr 4 where he is remains in serious condition. An investigation found that he had been exposed to live domestic poultry before he got sick.
Also, new CDC data show that 9 of 10 young kids hospitalized with Omicron were not vaccinated.
A commentary, however, cautions about applying the findings to all patient populations.
In the latest highly pathogenic avian flu developments, the Indiana State Board of Animal Health (BOAH) yesterday said samples from a third duck farm in Elkhart County were positive for avian influenza in preliminary testing.
In an email, the BOAH said the farm houses about 6,500 ducks and is near another quarantined site. It added that the control area extends slightly into Michigan's LaGrange County.
Use of the common maintenance drugs angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs), angiotensin-receptor blockers (ARBs), warfarin, statins, direct-factor Xa inhibitors, and P2Y12 inhibitors was tied to lower risk of COVID-19 infection, hospitalization, and death, a large US National Institutes of Health (NIH) study suggests.
A federal judge in Florida strikes down the CDC mask mandate for airline and other public transport.
"When prescription drugs are not affordable or accessible for any reason, consumers can experience lost work days, disease...
Review of 31 studies finds fatigue, memory problems, and shortness of breath are most common.
The outbreaks involve the Eurasian H5N1 strain, which has led to the loss of about 26 million US birds.
COVID-19 mRNA vaccine effectiveness (VE) against infection was 5% to 7% higher when the two primary doses were given at least 7 weeks rather than 3 to 5 weeks apart, according to an observational study of hospital and community healthcare workers (HCWs) in British Columbia published late last week in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.
Officials are probing clusters of acute hepatitis in kids, many resulting in liver failure.
Certain psychiatric disorders may predispose fully vaccinated COVID-19 survivors to reinfection.
In China, officials say they will help key industries resume operations in Shanghai.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Data from the Wellcome Monitor survey of UK citizens reveal that negative views of vaccination are tied to having poor knowledge about the role of antibiotics for treating infections, according to a study today in Vaccine.
