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About 51% of patients with milder cases, 67% of hospitalized patients; and 74% of ICU patients had long COVID.
A report last week from the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) suggests steps could be taken to limit the spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in food-producing animals during transportation.
First-dose COVID-19 vaccine uptake was higher in US states with worker vaccine mandates, suggesting that the requirements may have motivated even residents not covered to comply, concludes a study published late last week in JAMA Health Forum.
One study finds persistent racial disparities in Paxlovid prescribing through July 2022.
WHO advisers hold off on designating XBB and BQ.1 sublineages as variants of concern.
Nearly one third of 158 untreated COVID-19 patients experienced symptom rebound after being symptom-free for at least 2 consecutive days, finds a study of US adults published yesterday in JAMA Network Open.
An analysis of patients with Escherichia coli bloodstream infections (BSIs) found notably poorer outcomes in those with ceftriaxone-resistant infections, US researchers reported yesterday in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.
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Those who were vaccinated were less likely to report such symptoms.
WHO officials say the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on essential TB services has reversed years of progress.
"There is concern antibiotic shortages could lead to antimicrobial resistance, as physicians may have to resort to less optimal agents."
Officials will evaluate 3 Sudan Ebola vaccine candidates, and healthcare workers are already testing some new treatment options.
Today during a Clinician Outreach and Communication Activity call, officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended that pregnant women, breastfeeding women, and children who have been exposed to monkeypox be tested promptly if they show symptoms.
Among a sample of 107 households with pets and at least one COVID-19–infected adult in Idaho and Washington state, 21% of dogs and 39% of cats had signs of infection, 40% of dogs and 43% of cats had SARS-CoV-2 antibodies, and 5% and 8%, respectively, tested positive on polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing, finds a new study in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
Of 57 hospitalized patients with severe manifestations, most were Black men with AIDS.
Black veterans had lower odds of receiving steroids, immunomodulatory drugs, and antivirals.
An analysis of patients in a California health system found relatively high rates of flu-associated prescribing of select antibiotics in certain age-groups, researchers reported today in Epidemiology & Infection.
Uganda's health ministry today reported 14 more lab-confirmed Ebola cases, pushing the outbreak total to 109. Health officials also reported 2 more deaths, raising the total to 30. Earlier in the outbreak before the first cases were confirmed, the ministry reported 20 suspected cases, all of them fatal.
"If we really want to put COVID behind us, we have to keep the fight together," President Biden says.
Compared with both uninfected people and COVID-19 outpatients, hospitalized COVID-19 patients were at dramatically higher risk for death, a blood clot in a vein, heart failure, and stroke within 30 days, suggests an observational study published yesterday in Heart.