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White Americans accounted for 84% of the 216,311 C difficile-associated deaths reported from 1999 through 2023, researchers reported at IDWeek 2025.
The patient had a recent history of international travel.
The 3 recent cases are unrelated, but the fact that all 3 people had not traveled internationally indicates that local person-to-person spread is likely.
The study authors say the findings suggest that the shingles vaccine can prevent both infection and its complications.
Analysis shows antibiotic consumption rose in Southeast Asia and Africa from 2010 to 2021, while declining in Europe and the Western Pacific.
The Governors Public Health Alliance is the most recent—and thus far, the largest—move to safeguard citizens from the effects of the federal government's diminished public health system.
More than twice as many people think the administration's policies have made the country less healthy as those who think they have made the nation healthier.
Study shows vaccine effectiveness around 50% for both clinic visits and hospital stays for influenza during the 2025 Southern Hemisphere flu season.
The county announced the detection yesterday, and it involves an adult with no recent travel to mpox-endemic areas.
The findings suggest that antenatal corticosteroids should be used judiciously, given the potential long-term effects in otherwise healthy full-term and preterm children, the authors say.
Cambodia confirms its 16th H5N1 avian flu case of the year, the first since early August.
The clade 1 case is the nation's first in a person with no recent travel history and the seventh clade 1 case in the country.
Mass azithromycin use to reduce childhood deaths in Africa found that the practice did not result in lower mortality in infants 1 to 11 months old.
Affected states include Arizona, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, Oregon, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
The finding suggests that doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis is unlikely to reduce the region's rate of the sexually transmitted infection.
A randomized controlled trial will determine whether zaloganan, an antibacterial and antibiofilm peptide, is superior to the current standard of care.
Rift Valley fever cases are rising in both people and animals in Senegal and Mauritania.
South Carolina officials say all new case-patients were in quarantine before they contracted the disease.
No increased risk of congenital abnormalities was seen overall, by organ system, or for any of the 75 individual defects studied.
Combination vaccines exist for a reason: They reduce how many injections children receive and parents' stress.
