The virus that infected a man in Chile is nearly identical to H5N1 in wild birds in the country.
Symptom-based testing identified long COVID in 30% of hospitalized patients and 17% of outpatients, whereas diagnostic codes captured only 2.6% and 0.5% of those cases.
After a rise in flu activity in late January, led mainly by the 2009 H1N1 strain and influenza B, levels are declining again.
The drug combines sulbactam with a novel, broad-spectrum beta-lactamase inhibitor and targets Acinetobacter baumannii-calcoaceticus complex.
Public health messages that focus on protecting others are more effective at increasing vaccination rates than messages focused on protecting oneself, new research finds.
COVID-19 patients requiring mechanical ventilation are 16 times more likely than non-severely ill peers to experience ventricular tachycardia, data show.
Reports from UNICEF and the WHO highlight COVID-19's impact on the public perception and distribution of childhood vaccines.
The trial found perioperative use of piperacillin-tazobactam significantly reduced surgical-site infections.
The open-source statistical code uses electronic health record data to assess antibiotic prescribing.
A study shows how the COVID-19 pandemic revealed longstanding racial dynamics in prison sentencing.
Among test users, nearly 1 in 4 said they wouldn't have tested if they didn't have the free tests.
The move supports a recommendation from the Food and Drug Administration.
Also, the WHO posted updates on circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 cases in Burundi and Indonesia.
Scientists from Africa, Asia, Europe, and South America are forming a research network that will address the major drivers of antimicrobial resistance.
Very few serious adverse events were reported, and instances of myocarditis were lower than initially reported.
The strains are most closely related to variants circulating in humans more than 2 years earlier, the possible result of undetected circulation in the animals.
New data show that that 78% of compassionate-use bacteriophage treatments given to patients since 2018 have resulted in a favorable outcome.
All isolates were resistant to at least one antibiotic, with the vast majority of Salmonella and Shigella isolates resistant to trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole.
The case lifts Equatorial Guinea's number of confirmed infections to 17, which includes 12 deaths.
The 11 new cases raise the state's total since the virus was first detected early last year to 12.
Shielded people had a slightly higher known infection rate—5.9% versus 5.7%—compared with controls.
XBB.1.16 doesn't seem to come with additional health risks compared to XBB.1.5, but it may become dominant in some countries.
The latest case raises the country's outbreak total to 9, and the death lifts the fatality count to 6.
No transmission was noted in encampments, despite potential sharing of sleeping bags, clothes, and utensils.
Nearly two thirds of antibiotics dispensed in community pharmacies around the world are given without a prescription.
