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A trial in Niger finds that giving the antibiotic to all children up to 5 years old had a bigger impact on childhood mortality than limiting it to younger kids.
Absenteeism rates were 10.6 percentage points higher among students learning from home in districts in the top quintile of poverty than those receiving face-to-face instruction.
The agency approved of the single-strain mRNA COVID-19 vaccines for people aged 12 and older and granted emergency use authorization for those aged 6 months to 11 years.
The patient is a 66-year-old European man who had arrived in Thailand last week from an unspecified African country.
Its benefits in reducing symptoms or severity are unclear, the authors say.
The new funding brings US support for the outbreak response to $55 million.
The index is a step toward a tool that could someday be used to identify long COVID in children but is not ready for clinical use, the authors say.
In a proof-of-concept study, researchers used the technique to characterize the bacterial pathogen population at an Italian hospital during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The agency announced $9 million in research grants to measure the environmental and health impact of AMR in treated municipal wastewater discharge.
The team found a modest but statistically significant higher relative risk of having gestational diabetes in those who had COVID during pregnancy.
Effectiveness was consistent across sexes and age-groups: 80% in females, 86% in males, 80% in children, and 83% in adults.
As more groups offer vaccine donations, cases are spiking in Burundi, one of the newly affected countries.
A second study found good protection against hospitalization--although uneven uptake--among pregnant women.
Cambodia, where an older H5N1 clade circulates in poultry, has now reported 18 human cases since early 2023.
As Georgia reports its fifth case of the year, an outbreak in Oregon has grown to 30 cases.
A review and meta-analysis found that the pooled prevalence of carbapenem resistance in bacteria from newborns with suspected sepsis in Africa was 30.4%.
An impaired sense of smell could serve as both a potential marker of virus-induced brain damage and a marker of patients susceptible to brain damage.
Lack of antibiotics and diagnostics, gaps in surveillance, inadequate infection prevention, and limited financial resources are just a few of the hurdles African countries face.
Relative vaccine effectiveness was higher for the adjuvanted flu vaccine among older adults with multiple concurrent high-risk conditions.
Students whose memories were more negative and contained more COVID-19 information fared worse over time.
