For the seventh week in a row, indicators show that US influenza activity is dropping, but it's still above baseline levels.
But prison populations remained about the same during the entire crisis.
The deer in Adams County, in west-central Illinois, is the first documented case outside of the state's northern CWD-endemic region.
Indiana now has 6 connected cases in Allen County involving 4 children and 2 adults.
Only 7 jurisdictions are still reporting high flu activity, and, for COVID, wastewater detections returned to the low level.
The person, who is not a resident of New Jersey, potentially exposed fellow travelers.
The latest H5N1 confirmations in pet cats come from Kansas, Pennsylvania, Iowa, and Illinois.
The WHO's pandemic exercise was the first test of a new global coordination mechanism called the Global Health Emergency Corps.
Earlier patients had traveled to outbreak countries or were contacts of earlier cases.
CWD-positivity in hunter-harvested animals ranged from 2.3% in elk to 29% in white-tailed bucks.
Though no recent poultry outbreaks were reported in that part of Mexico, there were some detections in wild birds.
A 3-year-old girl from Mexico recently hospitalized with H5N1 avian flu has died from her infection.
A study of 40 female sex workers reveals that a single daily dose of doxycycline is associated with significantly reduced STIs, primarily syphilis.
Clade 1b is fueling a central Africa mpox outbreak, with the Democratic Republic of the Congo seeing the most cases.
In other H5N1 developments, the WHO releases surveillance guidance for human cases, and the USDA announces new funding to mitigate livestock diseases.
Children and adolescents were at higher risk for new-onset mild and moderate chronic kidney disease from 2020 to 2023.
Overall, 58% were prescribed antiviral drugs, and, among those, 80% had them dispensed.
Counties reporting their first CWD cases are Audrain, Callaway, Lewis, Marion, Miller, Morgan, and Texas, all of which abut CWD-positive areas.
In Kenyan children who received azithromycin after hospital discharge, the presence of a macrolide-resistance gene was tied to higher risk of re-hospitalization or death.
The cases in Malawi bring the number of African countries affected by mpox to 23.
The newly identified deer, a 4.5-year-old white-tailed buck, was harvested by a landowner helping the DNR with ongoing sampling.
The highest risk of transmission of SARS-CoV-2 was in the first 72 hours at room temperature and first 24 hours at 37℃.
The mRNA vaccine targets all major clades of the H5 avian flu subtype.
More than 35,000 cases of the mosquito-borne disease have been reported on the French Indian Ocean island since August 2024.
Mali, the 20th African country to introduce malaria vaccination, will use a hybrid approach to boost protection during the high-risk part of the season.
