Emerging Diseases News

The NIH has chosen vaccine researcher Kathleen M. Neuzil, MD, MPH, to be the new director of the Fogarty International Center.

Reported rates of Candida auris screening at facilities across the U.S. were low despite many facilities that conducted screening reporting at least one case of C. auris in the last year, according to survey results.

Puerto Rico has declared a public health emergency following a spike in cases of dengue.

An annual COVID-19 vaccination campaign, in which second doses were administered to certain at-risk populations, was associated with reduced disease burden and health care costs, a study showed.

The FDA authorized emergency use of pemivibart for pre-exposure prophylaxis of COVID-19 in adults and adolescents aged 12 years and older weighing at least 40 kg.

The cost-effectiveness of routine COVID-19 testing among nursing home staff depended on the virulence of variants circulating during the time of testing, researchers found.

A task force supported by the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society recently published the first guidance for the prevention and treatment of COVID-19 in children in the vaccine era.

Artificial intelligence could help hospitals improve infection prevention efforts and make their outbreak responses faster and more accurate, according to experts.

Among patients who died of acute respiratory distress syndrome associated with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, heart tissues were damaged even when they were not directly affected by the virus, researchers reported.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, same-day discharges following minimally invasive hysterectomy for benign indications increased without also increasing postoperative hospital readmission, researchers reported.