LOS ANGELES, April 30 (Xinhua) -- Adenovirus may have caused an outbreak of nine severe hepatitis cases in children in the U.S. state of Alabama, according to a new report of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). All the nine kids with severe acute hepatitis teste...
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Young people between the ages of 18 to 24 already have the highest rates of COVID-19 cases, CDC data showed, while increasingly transmissible variants are becoming more dominant in the U.S. And for every 1 million male teens -- the highest risk group -- an estimated 5,700 will ...
more than 100% according to theCDC's figuresfrom July 22. The next largest increase was in Louisiana, where first shots have accelerated 84%, followed by Nebraska and Minnesota. Alabama and Louisiana are among the states that have seen some of most severe COVID-19 surges so far this ...
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The hepatitis cases were first identified in Britain. There have been 74 since January, with 10 in Scotland. Health officials in Alabama say none of children had history of recently being infected with COVID-19, and none of them had been vaccinated against COVID-19....
"There is no really effective treatment for [RSV] in terms of antivirals," Dr. Paul Goepfert, a professor of medicine in the University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital division of infectious diseases, told ABC News. "So really the only treatment is supportive management, so...
The CDC advises anyone who has been in close contact with a COVID-19 patient to quarantine for two weeks. The change may prompt health departments to do contact tracing in cases where an exposure might previously have been considered too brief, said Dr. William Schaffner, a Vanderbilt Universi...
ATLANTA - Health officials are concerned that some COVID-19 metrics are trending in the wrong direction such as new cases and hospitalizations despite more Americans getting vaccinated. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky said Friday that the country recorded a 7...
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