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The company said durable protection from a single dose is highly valuable, especially where vaccine access is limited.
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.
Key departures from the 2001 guidelines include the designation of fluoroquinolone antibiotics (ciprofloxacin and levofloxacin) and doxycycline as first-line treatments for outbreaks.
Mississippi has recorded 115 pertussis cases this year, sharply higher than in 2024.
As Minnesota and California report more cases, New Mexico declared its outbreak over after 100 cases.
Between 2006 and 2023, vaccination rates reached 82%.
The findings, the authors say, supports the need to reconsider the federal decision to remove vaccine eligibility during pregnancy.
The Vaccine Integrity Project staff and advisors note the conspicuous and consequential absence of US health agency vaccine campaigns and annual vaccination reminders ahead of respiratory virus season.
Supported vaccines saved a record 1.7 million lives, 400,000 more than in 2023, and made headway in conflict countries.
FDA officials say they have determined Dectomax-CA1 is safe and has a reasonable expectation of effectiveness against the flesh-eating parasitic infection.
The US State Department announced it will introduce the HIV-prevention drug lenacapavir in Uganda through PEPFAR.
The white-tailed doe was reported in July after showing clinical signs of the fatal neurodegenerative disease.
Data on the efficacy of RSV vaccines on women of childbearing age and on infants and children were more limited.
In-hospital death among nebulized-heparin recipients was 4%, compared with 14% in controls.
In other developments, Canadian officials announce that the D1.3 genotype was identified in recent samples from ostriches at the center of a firestorm over culling.
Elsewhere, Israel has now reported 6 child deaths from measles, 4 of them over the past week.
Twenty people in 15 states have been now sickened in the outbreak, and 4 have died.
81% correctly said the best defense against the virus was avoiding getting bitten by a mosquito.
The reports provide more detail on the deadliest flu season for US children in more than a decade.
Samples available for one of the cats revealed the B3.13 genotype, and genetic sequencing at the USDA lab is underway.
