Rhode Island Hospital at Brown University Health will receive $1 million to demonstrate proof of concept for a test that uses RNA sequencing to detect bacterial pneumonia from whole blood.
In other developments, the WHO says violence in the eastern DR Congo complicates the country's mpox response and that Azerbaijan has reported its first case.
Some of the latest outbreaks are in Ohio, which has lost nearly 6 million poultry over the past month.
Hyperuricemia was tied to serious complications such as kidney injury, a higher risk of death during or after hospitalization, and long-term cognitive impairment.
A higher white blood cell count was associated with greater severity of post-COVID symptoms.
Though mosquitoes are known to carry Zika in Maharashtra state, the 2024 spike in cases was unusual.
The same DRC province reported an outbreak in 2022, which involved a new jump from animals to people.
COVID-19 hospitalization was twice as likely as that for flu, and death rates were 3 times higher.
The index patient is a 32-year-old man who worked as a nurse at a hospital in Kampala and died after seeking care at multiple facilities.
The Fremont County deer was found west of Percival, near the Missouri River, while the Pottawattamie County deer was taken northwest of Avoca.
Ten people have now died in Tanzania's Marburg outbreak.
In related developments, West Virginia officials suspend poultry exhibitions and Massachusetts warns of sick and dead birds across several cities.
One of the two adult bucks was harvested by a hunter, and the other was identified on a deer-breeding farm.
San Diego health officials warn of possible TB exposure at a high school during the 2023-24 academic year.
Twenty-three European nations have seen a rise in carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae bloodstream infections since 2019.
In a related development, Ugandan scientists who sequenced the virus say they don't see a link to the country's 2022 outbreak.
But rates of types 31/33/45, 47, and 45 were lower in vaccinated women, which the authors said suggests that the vaccines offer some cross-protection against these types.
Like other recent cases, the patient had traveled to Uganda, one of Africa's clade 1b mpox hot spots.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr, a lawyer with no medical or public health training, is a longtime vaccine critic.
Five new outbreaks are in Missouri, a state that has lost about 4.3 million poultry over the past 30 days.
In total, 5% of dogs and 13% of cats tested positive for COVID-19 on polymerase chain reaction, and 25% and 36%, respectively, had SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies.
Close adherence to glove-wearing and other standard precautions likely protected residents, the authors say.
Cases, on the rise since late 2024, have spread to new parts of Brazil and Colombia.
Authorities detected the cases in Concordia, St Landry, and Tangipahoa parishes after tracing them back to a CWD-positive deer farm in Jefferson Davis Parish.
The findings contradict a 2018 Food and Drug Administration warning that fluoroquinolone use could increase the risk of aortic aneurysm or dissection.
