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The vaccine, called OVX836, is designed to target the nucleoprotein (NP) of the influenza A virus, which is a highly conserved and less likely to mutate.
The case marks Alabama's first since 2002 and involves an unvaccinated child exposed during international travel.
Health officials say he might have been exposed to Yersinia pestis while camping in Rio Arriba County in northern New Mexico.
Requiring only 26 minutes of human input and 3 cents per patient note, the AI tool identified 76 records that mentioned a risk factor for H5N1.
The money will enable biotech company Phiogen to advance its bacteriophage-based treatment and preventive for extraintestinal pathogenic E coli infections.
All pregnant women, women trying to become pregnant, and those nursing are encouraged to get an updated COVID-19 vaccine.
Infants younger than 6 months are at 3 times the risk for admission.
The newly appointed work group leader has called mRNA vaccine dangerous and said they should be removed from the market.
Agency officials say their analysis indicates the benefits of the vaccine, which contains a weakened form of the chikungunya virus, do not outweigh the risks.
So far, US federal officials have not confirmed any cases in animals this year.
A decolonization intervention at three US nursing homes reduced carriage of multidrug-resistant organisms in residents, but rooms of those still colonized were highly contaminated.
The strain is genetically related to one that caused a 2012-14 reptile-related outbreak of 160 cases in 35 states.
In US developments, New Jersey health officials are tracking transit exposures linked to the state's latest confirmed case.
Findings suggest more efforts are needed to boost uptake of new tools to protect against the leading cause of hospitalization in infants.
A study of more than 4 million children in South Korea found no association between antibiotic exposure during pregnancy or early infancy and increased incidence of six autoimmune diseases.
Emergency department visits are rising for all age groups and are highest in young children.
In other developments, Wisconsin has 5 more cases from Oconto County and Pennsylvania's health department warned of exposure in 4 counties visited by a sick out-of-state traveler.
The CDC reported five more influenza-associated pediatric deaths, bringing the total for the 2024-25 flu season to 275.
COVID-19 survivors were at higher risk for asthma (66%), allergic rhinitis (27%), and chronic rhinosinusitis (74%).
Meanwhile, the US authorized the transfer of 219,000 vaccine doses, and the DR Congo deployed vaccine doses from Japan.
