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CDC researchers found that adults 65 and older continue to hospitalized for COVID at much higher rates than other age groups, yet antivirals remain underused in this age group .
Though KP.3.1.1 variant levels continue to rise, the proportion of XEC viruses is also trending upward.
In other mpox developments, Africa CDC noted a worrying rise in Kinshasa and the WHO listed the first mpox test for emergency use.
Researchers found increased tetracycline resistance genes in doxy-PEP users, but no major changes in the community of gut bacteria.
Like past Marburg outbreaks, health workers have been heavily impacted, accounting for 29 of the 36 cases.
Researchers found that less than one-third of outpatient antibiotics prescribed for children in Tennessee were consistent with guidelines for antibiotic choice and duration.
Ensuring the availability of linguistically appropriate information about vaccine recommendations and safety may help address the disparities, the authors say.
At 5 Massachusetts hospitals, prolonged antibiotic use was common during the first 33 months of the pandemic, despite low rates of proven bacterial infection.
The patient experienced conjunctivitis after contact with infected dairy cattle in the state's Central Valley.
The service prioritized jurisdictions that have detected CWD or that border CWD-endemic areas and have either launched surveillance programs or plan to do so.
The latest case is from El Monte and doesn't appear to be related to the county's earlier four illnesses.
The disease is similar to Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
But a subsequent dose-finding study found that higher doses of the drug were tied to numerically greater symptom relief.
The case is the fifth reported in Saudi Arabia this year.
At 132 weeks from randomization, two bedaquiline-containing regimens maintained superiority compared with a 9-month injectable-based regimen.
The man and his traveling companion, who reportedly had flulike symptoms, were taken to University Hospital Eppendorf in Hamburg.
Idaho's agriculture department says dairy herds are quarantined in four of the state's counties.
Rwanda's health ministry today reported two more cases, along with one more death, lifting the total to 29 cases, 10 of them fatal.
Results suggest that 54 million US COVID-19 infections were missed in official records after home tests were widely deployed and institutional testing waned.
There was a 17% higher risk of extrasystoles, or extra heart beats, after dose one.
