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The overall case-hospitalization rate among patients was 5.7%.
The results should be interpreted in the context of twice as many hospitalizations for COVID than flu during the study period, the authors say.
Of the three newly confirmed outbreaks, two are in Michigan and one is in Idaho.
The WHO recommends its use in children ages 6 to 16 years old in settings where the dengue burden and transmission intensity is high.
The serial interval was 8.7 days in 2022 and 14.2 days in previous years.
On average, the 102 joint-pain patients reported pain for over 4 months.
The tracker will help with surveillance, but it doesn't distinguish the influenza A subtype or determine the source of the virus.
In patients with suspected sepsis, the use of piperacillin-tazobactam was associated with a 5% increase in 90-day mortality compared with cefepime.
Collectively, the interventions may have averted 400,000 patient infections and 410,000 staff cases.
The illnesses were caused by Campylobacter, Salmonella, E coli, or Listeria monocytogenes.
As part of the response, more than 50 million children from 5 nations in southern Africa were vaccinated against polio.
The FDA sent the company a warning letter after an inspection revealed that Cue Health had made changes to the tests that reduced their reliability.
More than a quarter of ED visits had inappropriate antibiotic prescriptions, and nearly half of those didn't even have a plausible indication for antibiotics.
The estimated fatality rate among hospitalized patients with TB-COVID co-infection was 11%.
Wastewater detections began in early March, and so far sequencing hasn't found any mutations linked to human adaptation.
Vaccinated patients also had a 47% lower risk of hospitalization for heart failure and a 13% reduced risk of infection over 6 months.
Broad-spectrum antibiotic use was notably higher among cancer patients in the final months of life.
The report from the Global Coalition on Aging calls on G7 countries to contribute their 'fair share' to incentive structures to develop new antibiotics.
The 7-and-a-half-year-old cow was close to calving and had illness symptoms, including aggressive behavior, before it died.
Of 371 patients hospitalized over an 8-month period in Kamituga health zone, 88% had recently visited bars for professional sexual interactions.
