Louisiana officials have said they will no longer promote vaccinations, despite rising whooping cough cases in their state.
The person, who is not a resident of New Jersey, potentially exposed fellow travelers.
The WHO's pandemic exercise was the first test of a new global coordination mechanism called the Global Health Emergency Corps.
For the seventh week in a row, indicators show that US influenza activity is dropping, but it's still above baseline levels.
Kansas researchers have developed a vaccine that they say can protect poultry against multiple H5 avian flu strains, but chicken producers remain reluctant to use such vaccines because of possible foreign bans on US poultry products, according to reports yesterday.
Earlier patients had traveled to outbreak countries or were contacts of earlier cases.
Though no recent poultry outbreaks were reported in that part of Mexico, there were some detections in wild birds.
CWD-positivity in hunter-harvested animals ranged from 2.3% in elk to 29% in white-tailed bucks.
Newly affected herds are from Nevada and California.
The dogs were able to identify infected deer through feces samples.
Two states have now found Listeria in unopened liverwurst packages, and genetic sequencing shows a link to the outbreak.
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.
Only 5% of Americans are worried about contracting mpox in the next 3 months.
The European region has so far reported 19 imported Oropouche virus infections, and the virus has recently been linked to severe fetal outcomes.
The WHO said this week that it is preparing a polio vaccination plan for Gaza's children, following recent wastewater detections.
Wastewater detections have now jumped to the "very high" level.
Colorado's patient had visited an agricultural event, and the investigation into the Michigan patient's exposure is still under way.
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.
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.
More patients had a co-diagnosis of Kawasaki disease in 2023 (30.3%) than in 2021 (8.5%).
From 2016 through 2018, a dengue outbreak in American Samoa resulted in 660 confirmed cases.
