Emerging Diseases News

An estimated 5.8 million children in the United States have had long COVID, which may occur in up to 20% of children infected with SARS-CoV-2, according to the authors of a new state-of-the-art narrative review published in Pediatrics.

HHS released a national plan to reduce the incidence of vector-borne diseases in the United States, which has doubled over the last 20 years.

COVID-19 may quadruple a person’s risk for chronic fatigue, new study findings suggest.

About one in 10 women who develop COVID during pregnancy will have post-acute sequelae, or long COVID, according to a presenter at The Pregnancy Meeting.

Patients with confirmed Ebola virus disease were around half as likely to die if they were vaccinated against the virus than if they were not, results from a study showed.

I wasn’t so much hooked as I was hoodwinked!

A 1-year fellowship for senior trainees and early career infectious diseases physicians can help establish relationships with public health agencies and is an effective career development pathway, according to a study.

The use of biologics to treat psoriasis does not affect antibody production after a patient has had a COVID infection or vaccination, according to a study.

Despite the importance of the specialty of infectious diseases in modern medicine — made all the more evident by the COVID-19 pandemic — many rural areas of the United States do not have access to specialized ID care.

The updated COVID-19 vaccines were approximately 54% effective against symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection and offered protection against JN.1 and XBB viral lineages, according to early estimates published Thursday by the CDC.