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The patient may have contracted the waterborne amoebic disease from sinus rinse practices using tap water.
The case involves an unvaccinated person who attended a religious gathering in Kentucky of about 20,000 people.
Although bacterial co-infections were identified infrequently in hospitalized US COVID-19 patients, they were associated with more than double the risk of death.
The average time for symptom onset between successive cases (serial interval) is 8.5 days, and the time from infection to symptom onset (incubation period) is 5.6 days, new data show.
Since the outbreak began in October 2022, officials have reported 71,748 suspected cases of the mosquito-borne disease.
Israel's health ministry recently reported an illness in an unvaccinated 8-year-girl from Safed.
The COVID-19 booster was 74% effective against Omicron infection compared with the primary vaccine series for 3 months, but protection waned to 36% after 6 months.
A meta-analysis finds that short-course antibiotic therapy for ventilator-associated pneumonia did not result in increased recurrence or relapse
Global cases dropped 76% over the past 28 days, while deaths were down 66%.
Officials in Cambodia, meanwhile, say 2 recent H5N1 cases do not appear to reflect human-to-human transmission.
The outbreak has sickened at least 63 people in 8 states, and 10 patients required hospital care.
Rates of Enterococcus bacteremia in England rose year-over-year from 2012 through 2021.
The study found more strains of multidrug-resistant E coli in municipal wastewater than in hospital wastewater.
Structural changes in the brain may explain the persistent fatigue and neuropsychiatric complications tied to long COVID.
Mountain lions, a bobcat, red foxes, black bears, and skunks represent the latest avian flu cases in mammals.
The lawmakers say that while the shortages have eased, supplies haven't been completely replenished.
Two more deaths have occurred in people with symptoms of Marburg, which would raise the outbreak total to 11 cases, all fatal.
Transmission in healthcare settings and bars and nightclubs was most likely to involve at least 5 infections, with nightlife cases more likely to generate further spread.
The company, however, recently filed for bankruptcy, citing the prolonged FDA authorization process.
The Department of Energy, with "low confidence," says SARS-CoV-2 may have come from a lab, and a controversial doctors groups touts ivermectin for the flu and RSV.
