Infectious Disease News

Treatment with Paxlovid significantly reduced the duration and severity of SARS-CoV-2 infection among high-risk patients while also reducing health care utilization and severe outcomes, according to a study.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force released a draft recommendation encouraging physicians to screen for syphilis in people who are pregnant as early as possible.

NEW YORK — As vaccination coverage declines globally, pediatricians need to prepare to encounter more measles cases in their communities, according to a presentation at the Infectious Diseases in Children Symposium.

WASHINGTON — Among patients with systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases, circulating interleukin-18 levels were lower in those with long COVID vs. those without, according to data presented at ACR Convergence 2024.

CHICAGO — U.S. out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival rates have improved since the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, but have not returned to pre-pandemic levels, researchers reported.

Each year, from Nov. 18 to Nov. 24, the CDC’s U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week raises awareness about antimicrobial resistance and encourages the appropriate use of antibiotics and antifungals.

NEW YORK — As president of the Infectious Disease Society of America, Tina Q. Tan, MD, FAAP, FIDSA, FPIDS, said one of her top goals is to get people to understand the critical role pediatric providers play in caring for children.

The first known U.S. case of an mpox clade that has historically been more transmissible and deadly was detected in California in a person who had recently returned from travel to Eastern Africa, according to health officials.

One person has died and 15 have been hospitalized in a multistate outbreak of Escherichia coli linked to consuming organic carrots, the CDC announced.