Emerging Diseases News

Similar to SARS-CoV-2, which can cause long COVID, people hospitalized with influenza are at an increased risk for health issues long after they have cleared the infection, according to a study.

Wastewater surveillance can effectively detect upticks in viral respiratory infections, which could help identify outbreaks, another study has shown.

The incidence of hospital-associated respiratory virus infections was higher among pediatric patients compared with adult patients, according to a study of patients at University of Michigan hospitals.

Last week, the CDC issued a health advisory to physicians in the United States about a more transmissible strain of mpox virus spreading in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and asked them to consider mpox when evaluating rashes.

SAN DIEGO — A longer interval between the second and third SARS-CoV-2 vaccine doses results in greater antibody response in patients with inflammatory rheumatic diseases, according to data presented at ACR Convergence 2023.

Hospitalizations and deaths due to COVID-19 in patients with autoimmune rheumatic diseases declined significantly during the most recent 2 years of the pandemic, partly thanks to vaccination among vulnerable populations, according to data.

In a survey of health care personnel, one-third of registered nurses and more than one-quarter of physicians reported making at least one error in adhering to guidance for personal protective equipment in the previous 2 weeks.

For the past 5 years, we have asked infectious disease clinicians to tell us when and why they chose a career in ID.

A Bluetooth low-energy-based contact-tracing system was successful at identifying potential COVID-19 contacts with additional specific data including location, date and cumulative contact time, researchers found.

SAN DIEGO — Patients with primary systemic vasculitis who received a third or additional doses of a COVID-19 vaccine demonstrated a reduced risk for breakthrough infection, according to data presented at ACR Convergence 2023.