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Outbreak challenges include keeping up with testing in the DRC and rising deaths and overwhelmed treatment centers in parts of Uganda.
If the pandemic hadn't occurred, over half of the person-years of life lost would likely have been lived without disability, the authors say.
The nomination of former congressman David Weldon, MD, to lead the CDC was pulled shortly before a Senate confirmation hearing this morning.
The source of the outbreak still isn’t known, and the risk of re-emergence from a new spillover from the animal reservoir remains.
Last year, European countries reported 127,350 measles cases.
German researchers say the answer may be in virus-reactive memory T cells, which are triggered by COVID infection.
Over a 10-year period, 84% of C diff patients in Australia who were treated with FMT achieved primary cure.
Elk Hunt Area 93 is bordered by CWD-positive elk hunt areas 87 and 92 in the northwest part of the state.
In a phase 3 trial in Mali, the NmCV-5 vaccine was found to be safe and effective for use in young children beginning at 9 months of age.
Authorities say cases in Philadelphia and New York have no connection to ongoing outbreaks.
About 800 such outbreaks are reported in the US each year, leading to about 15,000 illnesses, 800 hospitalizations, and 20 deaths.
A review and meta-analysis finds Salmonella Typhi and Paratyphi samples from human infections in Pakistan were highly resistant to first-line and other commonly used antibiotics.
Washtenaw County is in the southeastern part of Michigan's Lower Peninsula and is home to Ann Arbor.
Two people with reported exposure associated with the Texas and New Mexico outbreaks now have symptoms.
Experiments by researchers at Boston U find that growing E coli in the presence of microplastics significantly increased resistance to 4 antibiotics.
Face-down positioning improved survival without intubation, cut the odds of intubation and in-hospital death, and lengthened the time from enrollment to intubation.
Some of the terminated grants focused on boosting uptake in minority populations, with the cuts covering a range of vaccines.
No changes were found in physical health and well-being scores among kindergartners before and during the pandemic.
But they had lower rates of critical care admission.
The county is in the west-central part of Michigan's Lower Peninsula.
