The pregnancy-related death rate shot up faster in 2021 than in 2020, nearly doubling from rates in 2019 and hitting racial minority women hard.
Officials are investigating a cluster of severe influenza B infections in kids and teens, some of whom had complications.
Of the 400 pets tested, 15% of dogs and 5% of cats were colonized with multidrug-resistant microbes.
About 4,800 lives could have been saved during the winter 2021-22 Omicron wave if just 5% of COVID-19 patients had taken the antiviral drug, modelers estimate.
The findings underscore the importance of urine testing before starting treatment and considering alternative treatments.
Fitbit tracking and the participant survey found that lower step counts persisted, even after COVID restrictions eased.
The patients are from two villages in the northwestern part of the country.
The detection involves a skunk found in Carter County, east of Amarillo.
China is experiencing a surge in H1N1 activity, India is battling H3N2, and flu is still above baseline in the European region.
Three of five US makers report shortages, which result from increased demand and manufacturing delays.
The detections span locations in three counties, with cases in two identified through postmortem testing.
The outbreak is linked to an extensively drug-resistant strain and has resulted in some deaths and reports of vision loss.
Separate WHO reports describe widening dengue and chikungunya activity in the Americas and the expansion of cholera outbreaks to four more countries.
COVID activity is on the rise in the WHO's Eastern Mediterranean and European regions, as well the South East Asia region where infections are up sharply in India.
Eight more cases have been confirmed, with worries of undetected spread and infections now spanning three provinces that share borders with Cameroon and Gabon.
The rise follows a decline earlier in the pandemic, which may have contributed to delayed or missed diagnoses.
Improving uptake of the drug, a component of Paxlovid, could help reduce longer term outcomes, as well as severe disease, the authors said.
To mark the observance, there were useful status reports and news of a high-level group that will lead a stronger push against TB in high-burden countries.
Survey results also revealed that women who had been sick with COVID were more likely to report heavy bleeding, missed periods, and spotting.
In other developments, Pakistan reported its first WPV1 case of the year, and the DRC and Indonesia reported more vaccine-derived cases.
The four groups recently had their first face-to-face meeting and a few months ago released a detailed action plan.
Though no new cases reported in the two outbreaks, groups released new details about the Marburg virus spread in each country.
The illness is China's third involving H3N8 since 2022.
Two of the outbreaks involved upland game bird farms, and another struck a live-bird market in New York's Queens County.
Recently approved for emergency use, the first combo at-home test for COVID-19 also marks the first self-test for flu.
