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In more than half of Veterans Affairs patients hospitalized for pneumonia over 8 years, the diagnosis of pneumonia changed between initial presentation and hospital discharge.
Between June 2019 and June 2023, AMI hospital encounters dropped by 20%.
Nipah virus, which has a high fatality rate, is a top target for countermeasure development.
In the latest variant update, the CDC said the proportion of KP.3.1.1 jumped from 14.4% to 27.8% over the last 2 weeks.
Over the weekend South Africa said it now has 22 cases of the virus.
The number of ED visits increased across the study period.
Brazilian officials are investigating a virus role in fetal deaths and microcephaly reports.
The girl's illness marks Cambodia's ninth H5N1 case of the year.
The latest confirmations also include more wild birds and small mammals from Weld County, a Colorado hit hard by dairy cow and poultry outbreaks.
A universal oral vancomycin prophylaxis protocol at a New Jersey hospital was linked to a significant drop in C diff infections in hematopoietic stem cell transplant patients.
Some of the cases have been caused by what researchers are calling "clade 1b," a new mpox lineage identified in the DR Congo last year that is highly transmissible.
CEPI and the WHO urge scientists and political leaders to bolster research to prepare for the next pandemic by focusing on families of pathogens and select pathogens.
The case raises the number of states with documented chronic wasting disease in deer and other cervids to 35.
Cattle herds in Colorado and South Dakota are the latest to be infected in the H5N1 avian flu outbreak.
Notably, 95 of 353 participants (27%) reported occupational change.
The investigators also cultured infectious H5N1 virus from milk and cattle samples taken from 2 Texas dairy farms.
The WHO is particularly worried about ST23, an hvKp strain that carries carbapenem-resistance genes and has been detected in 12 countries.
A single-center study found 86% of infants diagnosed with influenza from 2012 through 2019 received the antiviral, as recommended by national guidelines.
Interventions were associated with an estimated 50% higher chance of vaccination.
As seen in other studies, there was a higher incidence of thrombocytopenia after first dose of AstraZeneca compared with no vaccination.
