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China is experiencing a surge in H1N1 activity, India is battling H3N2, and flu is still above baseline in the European region.
The detection involves a skunk found in Carter County, east of Amarillo.
The patients are from two villages in the northwestern part of the country.
Fitbit tracking and the participant survey found that lower step counts persisted, even after COVID restrictions eased.
The findings underscore the importance of urine testing before starting treatment and considering alternative treatments.
About 4,800 lives could have been saved during the winter 2021-22 Omicron wave if just 5% of COVID-19 patients had taken the antiviral drug, modelers estimate.
Of the 400 pets tested, 15% of dogs and 5% of cats were colonized with multidrug-resistant microbes.
Officials are investigating a cluster of severe influenza B infections in kids and teens, some of whom had complications.
The pregnancy-related death rate shot up faster in 2021 than in 2020, nearly doubling from rates in 2019 and hitting racial minority women hard.
Six children in the DR Congo and 3 in Burundi have polio cases linked to the novel oral polio vaccine type 2.
Local scientists and their colleagues from the CDC detail 2 cases of locally acquired dengue in November 2022 in Maricopa County.
The Americas reported the vast majority of new cases over the past 3 weeks—408 of 442.
The test order rate per 1,000 patient-days fell from 126.5 in the pre-intervention period to 90.6 in the intervention period, a 28% reduction.
Of the 85 videos analyzed, only 33% covered all content items that were highlighted in clinical practice guidelines.
"Currently available data show that vaccination remains the best defense against severe disease, hospitalization, and death caused by COVID-19 across all age groups."
A measles outbreak that began late last year in western Nepal has grown to 690 cases, the WHO says.
Estimated 1-dose protection against symptomatic mpox was 78% after at least 14 days, ranging from 71% to 85% in sensitivity analyses.
Less than 6 hours of sleep a night in the days before and after flu and hepatitis A and B vaccination was associated with a lower immune response.
All told, 53 cases in Turkey, 12 in Germany, and 1 each in Austria and Switzerland have been linked to botulism neurotoxin injections at 2 hospitals in Turkey.
Brazil's drug regulatory agency has approved Japan-based Takeda's 4-strain vaccine against dengue virus for use in people ages 4 to 60 years old.
