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The CDC has received reports of 11 imported cases and is warning pregnant travelers to affected regions about the risk of severe fetal complications.
Tests on turtles or their environments in California and Illinois were positive for one of the two outbreak strains.
The report contains temporary recommendations, such as regulatory consideration of mpox vaccine approval and planning for vaccine campaigns.
The ECDC said the risk is high for those who have close contact with affected communities and moderate for people who are contacts of imported clade 1 cases.
Seven percent of participants missed more than 10 days of work in the 3 months following SARS-CoV-2 infection.
The finding has important implications amid the heavier floods, more extreme droughts, and greater seasonal precipitation tied to climate change.
Wastewater levels are at the very high level nationally, but show downward trends in the South and Midwest.
Most of the infections have been acquired abroad, and transmission in England has been limited, but officials are worried about the potential for wider spread.
Health officials await test results on samples from 3 Gaza children who had acute paralysis onset.
A new study estimates that only 33% of people in 135 low- and middle-income countries used a safely managed drinking water service in 2020.
There were no significant uptake increases in states that offered both vaccine mandates and a test-out option.
The patient sought medical attention in Stockholm but had recently visited Africa.
A multivariable model suggested a link only between socioeconomic disadvantage and lower health-related quality of life, particularly for limitations on physical activities and pain.
Twelve percent of animal swabs and 25% of environmental samples from 4 households tested positive for mpox DNA, but blood samples showed no viable mpox or orthopoxvirus antibodies that would indicate previous infection.
The PfSPZ vaccine was safe and prompted durable protection across 2 years.
A shortage of oral cholera vaccine still complicates response efforts, with demand nearly double the number of doses produced since 2023.
A randomized trial in the Netherlands found that how babies are fed had a much bigger impact on the composition of the infant gut microbiome.
The advisory from the New York State Department of Health was prompted by a rise in ciprofloxacin-resistant strains of Neisseria meningitidis.
As plans move forward to mobilize vaccine, health officials still better epi information to best target the supplies.
Among VFC-eligible children born during 2011 to 2020, coverage by age 24 months with one or more MMR dose and the combined seven-vaccine series was stable.
