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A CDC-journal serosurvey found PDCoV-neutralizing antibodies in 9 of 100 young people with near-daily swine contact versus 1 of 200 adults — the first US evidence of human exposure to this swine coronavirus.
A new CDC burden estimate attributes roughly 995,000 illnesses, 9,592 hospitalisations and 236 deaths a year to direct and indirect animal contact across seven pathogens, led by Campylobacter and Salmonella.
The infections, detected across six regions between January and early October, had no links to one another. Globally MERS-CoV has caused 2,643 cases and 965 deaths since 2012.
A single patient is on ventilatory support in Kozhikode. WHO says 104 contacts are being monitored and the source of infection has not been identified.
An 8-year-old boy had brain inflammation with no respiratory symptoms. Every respiratory, blood and rectal sample tested negative; the virus was in his cerebrospinal fluid alone.
Kerala's ninth Nipah outbreak since 2018 produced four unlinked cases between April and July, suggesting separate spillovers from bats rather than a chain of human transmission.