Israel's health ministry recently reported an illness in an unvaccinated 8-year-girl from Safed.
Since the outbreak began in October 2022, officials have reported 71,748 suspected cases of the mosquito-borne disease.
The average time for symptom onset between successive cases (serial interval) is 8.5 days, and the time from infection to symptom onset (incubation period) is 5.6 days, new data show.
Although bacterial co-infections were identified infrequently in hospitalized US COVID-19 patients, they were associated with more than double the risk of death.
The case involves an unvaccinated person who attended a religious gathering in Kentucky of about 20,000 people.
The patient may have contracted the waterborne amoebic disease from sinus rinse practices using tap water.
Screening patients for Clostridioides difficile colonization was not useful for preventing C difficile infection, Dutch researchers report.
In Salmonella bacteria isolated from humans and food-producing animals, resistance to ampicillin, sulfonamides, and tetracyclines remained at high levels.
About 63% were prescribed empiric antibiotics, but only 7% had bacterial co-infection, and only 3% had a respiratory bacterial co-infection.
An unpublished study involving nearly 150,000 COVID-19 survivors who had mild infections in Salt Lake City suggests that many still had chest pain 6 months and 1 year later.
A study suggests a multidrug-resistant bacteria outbreak that sickened 4 patients and killed 3 was likely linked to a commercial water purification system.
Long-COVID patients were more likely to have reflux, peptic ulcers, pancreatitis, dyspepsia, gastritis, irritable bowel syndrome, and other GI conditions.
The US is finalizing a plan to ease screening of travelers from China, the World Bank is short on pandemic funds, and the UK announces a spring booster plan.
After peaking in late 2022, global flu activity continues to decline, with greater proportion of the H1N1 and influenza B viruses detected.
More than 230 organizations representing healthcare providers, public health professionals, and others have sent a letter to Congress urging for steps to address antimicrobial resistance.
The US reports 6 more H5N1 infections in mammals, Chile confirms the strain in a sea otter, and the US and UK weigh vaccinating poultry.
A collaboration between NGOs and a diagnostic test maker will provide rapid molecular TB tests to high-burden countries at a reduced price.
A roundup of international news on the COVID-19 pandemic.
Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Madagascar, and Nigeria all have new cases, and the GPEI confirms the earlier-reported case in Israel.
Patients who expected antibiotics for a respiratory infection were more likely to receive them, even during COVID-19.
People with chronic hepatitis B infection are at increased risk for liver cancer and cirrhosis and are 70% to 85% more likely to die prematurely.
US legislators vote to declassify info about SARS-CoV-2 origins, the Cochrane Review issues a clarification, and XBB.1.5 now makes up nearly 90% of US cases.
Fever and cough were more common with the Delta and Omicron variants, but rates of hospitalization and ICU admission stayed the same over time.
The latest issue of Eurosurveillance includes 3 reports on antibiotic-resistant infections in Europe.
Protection of 4 doses of COVID vaccine against BA.5 infection among COVID-naïve participants was 16.1%, while it was 89.5% and 94.3% among those previously infected with BA.1 and BA.2, respectively.
