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Also, the single available medical code for long COVID may not capture the wide variation in symptoms and severity.
Moderna vaccine effectiveness against symptomatic Omicron was 60% 2 weeks to 2 months after the second dose and 36% from 3 to 4 months after the second dose.
The percentage of outpatient visits for flulike illness remained just above the national baseline.
There have been 221 confirmed Shigella sonnei infections and 37 possible cases from the EU, UK, and US.
At least 11 people have been sickened and 10 hospitalized in the multistate outbreak going back several years.
Adults hospitalized with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron infections in Switzerland died at 1.5 times the rate of those diagnosed as having influenza A or B.
The company will offer no-cost access to vaccines after the government phases out covering them when the Public Health Emergency winds down in May.
After adjustment for risk factors, adherence to clinical guidelines was identified as a major protective factor.
A meta-analysis finds that antibiotics may be associated with more than a quarter of cases of rare, serious drug reactions that affect the skin and mucous membranes.
Experts conclude that sustained incidence of illness in a few nations, along with underreported detection of cases, was enough to maintain emergency status.
Multidrug-resistant Salmonella gradually increased over time in both intestinal and product samples.
People with asthma experienced worse control of their asthma after they had recovered from mild to moderate COVID-19.
Testing done on samples from about 5,000 deer harvested in last year's hunting seasons in Iowa revealed that 84 deer were positive for CWD.
Rates of COVID-19 rebound were similar in patients who did and didn't receive antiviral drugs, and relapse wasn't tied to worse clinical outcomes.
The WHO has abandoned plans for the second phase of its study into SARS-CoV-2 origins because of challenges it faced doing key studies in China.
The teenagers live in the same community that borders Equatorial Guinea, which declared an outbreak yesterday.
The framework has 4 pillars: prevention of infections, access to essential health services, timely and accurate diagnosis, and appropriate and quality-assured treatment.
In a review of the literature going back to the 1980s, experts explore the role conflicts have played in spiking rates of antimicrobial resistance in pathogens.
There were more than 271,000 chikungunya illnesses last year, 95 of them fatal, compared with about 137,000 cases in 2021.
SER-109, an investigational microbiome therapeutic for treating recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection, was well tolerated and showed clinical benefit.
