Key departures from the 2001 guidelines include the designation of fluoroquinolone antibiotics (ciprofloxacin and levofloxacin) and doxycycline as first-line treatments for outbreaks.
The US State Department announced it will introduce the HIV-prevention drug lenacapavir in Uganda through PEPFAR.
FDA officials say they have determined Dectomax-CA1 is safe and has a reasonable expectation of effectiveness against the flesh-eating parasitic infection.
At a New Jersey hospital, treating 29 patients with multiple recurrent CDI cases resulted in a net loss of more than $2.2 million over 4 years.
Less than half, 42%, of the 1,700 respondents, said it was safe to take an mRNA COVID vaccine in pregnancy.
The company said durable protection from a single dose is highly valuable, especially where vaccine access is limited.
The 2.5-year-old buck was found about 5 miles from a previous detection in adjacent Lanier County.
Prior COVID-19 infection was associated with a 41% increased risk of all-cause dementia.
All of Minnesota's 10 new cases were unvaccinated, including 7 in families with recent domestic travel and 3 in international travelers.
Supported vaccines saved a record 1.7 million lives, 400,000 more than in 2023, and made headway in conflict countries.
Mississippi has recorded 115 pertussis cases this year, sharply higher than in 2024.
The outbreaks are part of an early uptick in H5N1 activity in poultry that began in late August, mainly in the Midwest.
In other developments, South Carolina suspects community transmission in an outbreak in the Upstate region.
Twenty people in 15 states have been now sickened in the outbreak, and 4 have died.
Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin report new detections, part of rising activity over the past several weeks.
The cases include three wild poliovirus type 1 and three circulating variant poliovirus type 2.
A case-control study finds multiple comorbidities, invasive devices, and low functional status are significantly associated with progression from colonization to clinical symptoms.
Treated cloth baby wraps allow targeting of young children, integration with existing cultural norms, and protection against outdoor and daytime mosquito biting, the authors say.
The money will fund work on CD388, a non-vaccine preventive for both pandemic and seasonal flu.
A seventh young child in Israel, a 1-year-old, has died this year from measles.
Researchers estimate the extrapolated annual cost of treating norovirus infections in Americans aged 65 and older is $884 million.
The immune response in children aged 2 to 11 years was non-inferior to that observed in adults, and 2.5-times greater in children aged 2 to 5.
All but 1 of Utah's 53 measles case-patients were unvaccinated or have unknown immunization status.
In other developments, the CDC reschedules a clinician's update on measles as 2 states announce a few new cases.
Whooping cough cases in Florida have risen by 81% this year compared with 2024.
