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No deaths have been reported, but 12 people have been hospitalized.
Also recorded was an outbreak among 9,000 commercial turkey breeder hens in Meeker County, Minnesota.
The number of licensed SNF beds fell 3%, and operating capacity dropped 5%, from 2019 to 2024.
Researchers say the strain of XDR Shigella sonnei appears to be spreading beyond high-risk groups into the broader population, which could lead to more treatment failure.
The analysis looked at more than 332,000 adults in Denmark aged 65 and older.
Also, Utah has 25 new cases, raising the state total to 201.
County-level US nonmedical exemptions to childhood vaccine requirements rose 2.5 percentage points from 2010 to 2024.
Although the correlate of protection is unknown, the findings show that standard doses should be used in infants.
The outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease began in late September following an intense rainy season.
The US Senate and House of Representatives have included funding for GAVI in their foreign assistance appropriations bill.
Widespread immunization was tied to an 86% drop in hospital admissions.
Reduced funding will erode decades of progress and impede future advancements, but there is hope for the future with alternative resources.
One appointee has erroneously claimed COVID-19 vaccines cause miscarriages.
Rift Valley fever is a mosquito-borne disease that primarily affects livestock.
Debio1453 is a first-in-class antibiotic candidate that targets an enzyme that’s essential for the growth of Neisseria gonorrhoeae.
The Tennessee Fish and Wildlife Commission will meet in March to finalize any deer-management changes prompted by the discovery.
The findings also highlight the incremental protection of the vaccine against severe illness and hospitalization.
South Carolina has reported 310 measles cases in the past 6 months.
Economic instability was tied to a more than double risk of long COVID, but economic instability without food insecurity was not.
At 10 US hospitals, a discharge-focused audit-and-feedback intervention didn't lower antibiotic use at discharge when compared with the pre-intervention baseline.
