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The Trump administration's executive order will upend one of the most successful health programs in the history of public health.
Among clinicians with knowledge of guidelines, 62% recommended use.
Models find no difference in all-cause death rates, 30-day hospital readmission, or length of stay before and after restrictions were put into place.
A coalition of groups sent a letter to the HHS secretary outlining steps he should take to reduce antibiotic use in food-producing animals.
The state DNR said that 89% of the positive cases were found in the Southern Farmland Zone.
Ugandan health officials will maintain Ebola surveillance and continue risk communications and patient follow-up.
The Biden-era rule would have prevented the sale of raw chicken or turkey with certain levels or strains of Salmonella.
Thirty states have cases, and 83% of infections are part of outbreaks, the largest centered in West Texas.
The study identified open-space development and low population density as risk factors for Alpha-gal syndrome.
Some of the key steps have included deployment of more community health workers and decentralized lab testing.
Flu-related deaths in children climb to 204, up 6 from the previous week, the CDC says.
Over the past few months, Idaho has become the nation's hot spot for H5N1 detections in dairy cattle.
Healthcare workers remain the most trusted sources of information (73%), while trust in the federal government to provide factual information rose to 58%.
Mali, the 20th African country to introduce malaria vaccination, will use a hybrid approach to boost protection during the high-risk part of the season.
In a flu pandemic setting, the drug could be used to curb household transmission, especially early in the response, the authors say.
A 10% decline in vaccine uptake could lead to 11.1 million cases of the highly contagious illness in that timeframe.
In related news, the WHO marks World Malaria Day with a warning that progress against the mosquito-borne disease is stalling.
The steering committee will make recommendations on how non-governmental groups can help ensure that vaccine use is evidence-based.
Protection, however, dropped from 40% to 18% after 120 or more days.
Vaccination was tied to a lower probability of receiving a new dementia diagnosis during the following 7 years.
