Cattle herds in Colorado and South Dakota are the latest to be infected in the H5N1 avian flu outbreak.
A single-center study found 86% of infants diagnosed with influenza from 2012 through 2019 received the antiviral, as recommended by national guidelines.
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health this week confirmed a local outbreak of measles among five people—four of them county residents who were exposed to an unimmunized international visitor who was infectious with measles.
A universal oral vancomycin prophylaxis protocol at a New Jersey hospital was linked to a significant drop in C diff infections in hematopoietic stem cell transplant patients.
The latest confirmations also include more wild birds and small mammals from Weld County, a Colorado hit hard by dairy cow and poultry outbreaks.
The number of ED visits increased across the study period.
The girl's illness marks Cambodia's ninth H5N1 case of the year.
The case raises the number of states with documented chronic wasting disease in deer and other cervids to 35.
Nipah virus, which has a high fatality rate, is a top target for countermeasure development.
After the early months of the pandemic, antibiotic use at VA hospitals declined, even through subsequent COVID waves.
In a policy brief, the WHO says governments need to ensure adequate resources for antibiotic R&D and foster innovation.
Between June 2019 and June 2023, AMI hospital encounters dropped by 20%.
The dogs were able to identify infected deer through feces samples.
Though the risk remains very low, the CDC and state partners continue to look for the clade, including in wastewater samples.
The vaccines have prevented an estimated 508 million cases of illness, 32 million hospitalizations, and 1.1 million deaths.
The WHO said this week that it is preparing a polio vaccination plan for Gaza's children, following recent wastewater detections.
Only 5% of Americans are worried about contracting mpox in the next 3 months.
Wastewater detections have now jumped to the "very high" level.
In patients with Enterobacterales and Pseudomonas infections, inadequate empiric therapy and delayed use of newer antibiotics was associated with higher mortality and longer hospital stays.
The CRISPR-enhanced bacteriophage cocktail, LBP-EC01, targets urinary tract infections caused by Escherichia coli.
Colorado's patient had visited an agricultural event, and the investigation into the Michigan patient's exposure is still under way.
The group included patients on dialysis, with lung cancer, on immunotherapy, and who had received solid-organ transplants.
The group meets on August 14 to assess the emerging complex situation in the African region.
Children were less commonly vaccinated compared to adults.
Analysis of stool samples from 164 residents, 61% of whom were prescribed antibiotics in the prior year, found 1,100 unique antibiotic resistance genes.
