Emerging Diseases News

The CDC recently recommended updated versions of the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines aimed at omicron XBB subvariants of SARS-CoV-2, following their approval by the FDA.

Outreach efforts in the form of text messages and phone calls succeeded in increasing COVID-19 vaccination among children with sickle cell disease, according to a study published in Pediatrics.

The minimum incubation period for Ebola virus may not actually be 2 days, researchers wrote in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.

The CDC on Tuesday recommended the updated monovalent COVID-19 vaccines for people aged older than 6 months.

The FDA on Monday approved and authorized updated COVID-19 vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech that target omicron XBB subvariants of SARS-CoV-2.

PHILADELPHIA — At this year’s World Anti-Microbial Resistance Congress, Ricardo Chaves, MD, PhD, the executive medical director of clinical development at Debiopharm, moderated a panel on novel antibiotics.

Resumption of elite-level sports after recovery from COVID-19 is “safe and feasible,” according to a prospective study of Dutch athletes.

A fourth dose of a bivalent COVID-19 vaccine provided added protection for previously infected and SARS-CoV-2 naïve patients compared with a fourth dose of a monovalent vaccine, researchers in Singapore found.

On Sept. 1, the CDC issued a health advisory concerning an increased rate of infections in the United States of a flesh-eating bacterium called Vibrio vulnificus.

Mpox can spread a variety of ways — including through close face-to-face and skin-to-skin contact — but sexual activity remains the most common route of exposure, new study findings suggest.