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Compared to those who had not received an updated XBB vaccine, recipients had 62% protection against COVID-19 hospitalization.
A review and meta-analysis found prophylactic azithromycin reduced some maternal and neonatal infections, but had little or no impact on maternal and neonatal mortality.
The results may guide choice of medications and aid surveillance efforts, the authors say.
A roundup of the latest news on H5N1 in dairy cattle.
Cannabis use was significantly associated with increased risk of hospitalization.
ASPR is monitoring the situation closely and making resources like protective equipment available to state and local partners.
COVID test positivity, emergency department visits, hospitalizations, and deaths are are on the rise, but remain at low levels.
The study found limiting preventive antibiotics to complicated cataract surgery was as effective as routine antibiotic prophylaxis in preventing endophthalmitis.
Four people required hospitalization, but there were no confirmed deaths in the outbreak.
South Africa has identified 6 new mpox cases in an outbreak that began in late May.
Researchers' other tests found no antibodies in cows in German regions affected by the virus or evidence of virus in milk samples.
The infants showed median reductions in brain volumes of white matter, right hippocampus, and left amygdala.
Protection from booster doses was high, hovering around 75%.
But rates of systemic side effects were similar for men and women after receipt of both types of vaccine.
The treatment remained protective against recurrent C difficile infection in 86% of patients over a span of 2 years despite antibiotic exposure.
A surveillance study found a threefold increase in extensively drug-resistant gonorrhea isolates.
Cases in several Americas subregions are sharply above last year's totals and 5-year averages.
Officials didn't say how the man contracted the virus, but most past cases involved contact with poultry or poultry environments.
Thirty-nine percent of all California mpox cases occurred in Los Angeles County.
The proportion of MRSA isolates declined significantly from 2010 through 2019, but resistance to non–beta-lactam antibiotics rose, particularly in southern states.
