In the first of the 2 outbreaks, affected children had contact with bats. Further investigations are under way for both events.
The postponement comes amid concerns that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime vaccine critic, could make changes to the group, or get rid of it altogether.
Afghanistan and Pakistan report new wild poliovirus cases, while Algeria and Guinea confirm cases of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus.
The mutation doesn't appear to reduce viral fitness, as evidenced by its rapid spread, the authors say.
The county is in southwestern Indiana, on the border with Illinois and Kentucky, both of which are CWD-positive.
Amid a post-pandemic increase in pediatric M pneumoniae cases, researchers find rising rates of macrolide-resistance mutations at Ohio children's hospitals.
A survey of the province's public hospitals and microbiology labs finds that the rate of new patients with carbapenemase-producing organisms doubled from 2022 to 2023.
The funds will help vaccinate 370 million children annually.
The CDC notes that the poultry worker from Ohio had been hospitalized with respiratory and nonrespiratory symptoms.
Of children aged 5 to 10 years, about 40% had abnormal lung function post-treatment, rising to 65% in older children.
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.
Portuguese biotechnology company Immunethep is receiving $2 million from CARB-X to develop a conjugate peptide-based vaccine against E coli.
In other H5N1 developments, the USDA confirmed detections at live-bird markets in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Cases in Cambodia have been on the rise, many of them fatal and some involving a novel reassortant.
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 new funding round targets therapeutics for gram-negative bacterial infections and rapid diagnostics for typhoid fever.
The 2 patients exposed to poultry had severe infections, with H5N1 confirmed only from lower respiratory tract samples.
The owners told authorities that they fed their cats Wild Coast Raw pet food, the same brand implicated in recent feline illnesses in Oregon.
In other measles news, Kentucky has reported a case in an adult who had recently traveled internationally.
A study of 151 patients with carbapenem-nonsusceptible infections found treatment with imipenem/cilastatin/relebactam was successful in 70% of cases.
Three of the world's seven human cases of H5N6 have now been reported in the past 10 days, with Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection (CHP) reporting a new case today, following cases on Dec 29 and Jan 4.
Imported cases are rare, and the United States has reported 8 in the past 55 years.
Paxlovid was associated with a 61% lower risk of hospitalization.
