Nine people were hospitalized, and 4 were treated with botulinum antitoxin over concerns that botulinum could spread beyond the injection site.
The mutation doesn't appear to reduce viral fitness, as evidenced by its rapid spread, the authors say.
Of children aged 5 to 10 years, about 40% had abnormal lung function post-treatment, rising to 65% in older children.
In other H5N1 developments, the USDA confirmed detections at live-bird markets in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
A survey reveals that 98% of US pediatric ASPs meet CDC Core Elements for antibiotic stewardship, but most reported insufficient funding.
A study of primary care patients in 5 European countries finds the mean antibiotic course duration for common respiratory infections was 7.5 days.
The CDC notes that the poultry worker from Ohio had been hospitalized with respiratory and nonrespiratory symptoms.
Amid a post-pandemic increase in pediatric M pneumoniae cases, researchers find rising rates of macrolide-resistance mutations at Ohio children's hospitals.
Four people required hospitalization, but there were no confirmed deaths in the outbreak.
The new funding round targets therapeutics for gram-negative bacterial infections and rapid diagnostics for typhoid fever.
The funds will help vaccinate 370 million children annually.
Cases in Cambodia have been on the rise, many of them fatal and some involving a novel reassortant.
Portuguese biotechnology company Immunethep is receiving $2 million from CARB-X to develop a conjugate peptide-based vaccine against E coli.
Nine of the state's counties have now reported cases, though most infections are from the Gaines County epicenter.
Baiting and feeding encourage deer to congregate around a shared food source, risking the transmission of CWD through direct contact or environmental contamination.
The owners told authorities that they fed their cats Wild Coast Raw pet food, the same brand implicated in recent feline illnesses in Oregon.
A study of 151 patients with carbapenem-nonsusceptible infections found treatment with imipenem/cilastatin/relebactam was successful in 70% of cases.
The 2 patients exposed to poultry had severe infections, with H5N1 confirmed only from lower respiratory tract samples.
Clarametyx Biosciences announced that CMTX-101, a monoclonal antibody designed to collapse bacterial biofilms, will receive priority review and other development incentives from the FDA.
Seven of the 15 cases from Cambodia this year have been fatal, resulting in a case-fatality rate of 46.6%.
Three more outbreaks were reported, bringing the year's total to 32, double the number reported for all of 2024.
The UK's National Health Service is offering the 4CMenB vaccine, which provides cross-protection against gonorrhea, to patients at the greatest risk of infection.
For infants born from October to February, maternal vaccination was cost-effective, but nirsevimab was cost-effective only in those born in October and November.
The WHO guidance aims to spur development of in vitro diagnostic tests that can quickly and accurately identify serious bacterial infections in infants and newborns.
Among patients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia in Georgia and Tennessee, 14% had pneumococcal pneumonia.
