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.
Two more deaths have occurred in people with symptoms of Marburg, which would raise the outbreak total to 11 cases, all fatal.
The lawmakers say that while the shortages have eased, supplies haven't been completely replenished.
Mountain lions, a bobcat, red foxes, black bears, and skunks represent the latest avian flu cases in mammals.
Structural changes in the brain may explain the persistent fatigue and neuropsychiatric complications tied to long COVID.
The study found more strains of multidrug-resistant E coli in municipal wastewater than in hospital wastewater.
Rates of Enterococcus bacteremia in England rose year-over-year from 2012 through 2021.
The outbreak has sickened at least 63 people in 8 states, and 10 patients required hospital care.
Officials in Cambodia, meanwhile, say 2 recent H5N1 cases do not appear to reflect human-to-human transmission.
Global cases dropped 76% over the past 28 days, while deaths were down 66%.
A meta-analysis finds that short-course antibiotic therapy for ventilator-associated pneumonia did not result in increased recurrence or relapse
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.
Israel's health ministry recently reported an illness in an unvaccinated 8-year-girl from Safed.
Since the outbreak began in October 2022, officials have reported 71,748 suspected cases of the mosquito-borne disease.
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.
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 case involves an unvaccinated person who attended a religious gathering in Kentucky of about 20,000 people.
The patient may have contracted the waterborne amoebic disease from sinus rinse practices using tap water.
Screening patients for Clostridioides difficile colonization was not useful for preventing C difficile infection, Dutch researchers report.
In Salmonella bacteria isolated from humans and food-producing animals, resistance to ampicillin, sulfonamides, and tetracyclines remained at high levels.
About 63% were prescribed empiric antibiotics, but only 7% had bacterial co-infection, and only 3% had a respiratory bacterial co-infection.
An unpublished study involving nearly 150,000 COVID-19 survivors who had mild infections in Salt Lake City suggests that many still had chest pain 6 months and 1 year later.
A study suggests a multidrug-resistant bacteria outbreak that sickened 4 patients and killed 3 was likely linked to a commercial water purification system.
Long-COVID patients were more likely to have reflux, peptic ulcers, pancreatitis, dyspepsia, gastritis, irritable bowel syndrome, and other GI conditions.
The US is finalizing a plan to ease screening of travelers from China, the World Bank is short on pandemic funds, and the UK announces a spring booster plan.
