The rate of test positivity and percentage of emergency department visits diagnosed as COVID-19 significantly declined in September.
A case-control study finds multiple comorbidities, invasive devices, and low functional status are significantly associated with progression from colonization to clinical symptoms.
Treated cloth baby wraps allow targeting of young children, integration with existing cultural norms, and protection against outdoor and daytime mosquito biting, the authors say.
The money will fund work on CD388, a non-vaccine preventive for both pandemic and seasonal flu.
Cefiderocol was found to be efficacious in patients with gram-negative bloodstream infections, but more evidence is needed in patients with carbapenem-resistant infections.
The death, in a county where high numbers of West Nile virus-positive mosquitoes and dead birds have been found, is the fifth West Nile virus-related death in the state this year.
Infectious virus persisted throughout the cheese-making process and aging in cheeses made with raw milk at pH levels above 5.0.
All but 1 of Utah's 53 measles case-patients were unvaccinated or have unknown immunization status.
The immune response in children aged 2 to 11 years was non-inferior to that observed in adults, and 2.5-times greater in children aged 2 to 5.
Researchers estimate the extrapolated annual cost of treating norovirus infections in Americans aged 65 and older is $884 million.
A seventh young child in Israel, a 1-year-old, has died this year from measles.
Both free-ranging and captive animals have previously tested positive in the county, which is surrounded by other CWD-positive counties.
Last year Minnesota reported 70 measles cases, but 0 in 2023.
Whooping cough cases in Florida have risen by 81% this year compared with 2024.
An adult female elk in Elk Hunt Area 116 tested positive for the fatal neurologic infection, marking the area's first case.
Japan typically reports increased influenza activity at the end of November.
All 21 cases in 2025 have been reported from mainland China.
The vaccine will be developed on a baculovirus platform.
The county was already included in the North Mississippi CWD Management Zone.
Officials have confirmed a severe case of H5N1 avian flu in a man in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province in south central China, according to a statement from the Sichuan Health and Family Planning Commission translated and posted today by Avian Flu Diary (AFD), an infectious disease news blog.
Chikungunya is rarely fatal, but it can cause fever and sometimes severe joint pain.
APHIS also notes several outbreaks in backyard flocks.
A randomized controlled trial will determine whether zaloganan, an antibacterial and antibiofilm peptide, is superior to the current standard of care.
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.
