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Though the available COVID-19 booster is not an exact match for the new variant called EG.5, a Cape nurse said it's been effective.

The Omicron offshoot carries more than 35 mutations in key portions of the virus compared with XBB.1.5, the dominant variant through most of 2023, a number roughly on par with the Omicron variant that caused record infections. Of the 34 confirmed cases identified as of Sept. 4, five patients were hospitalised and no deaths had been linked to the new emerging variant. The agency said 28 of the confirmed cases were identified from a single outbreak at a care home in Norfolk.

The Bear River Health Department announced Tuesday it is investigating an outbreak of E. coli infections following six reported cases in Cache County.

Tuberculosis is a dangerous bacterial infection of the lungs. Moyo Studio/E+ via Getty ImagesBefore SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, spread across the world in 2020, tuberculosis was responsible for more deaths globally than any other infectious disease. But thanks to targeted public health efforts in the U.S. and globally, tuberculosis cases had been steadily falling for decades. I am an infectious disease clinician and public health practitioner who has been caring for underserved c

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