Emerging Diseases News

I think it was in 1965 — so, a long time ago — that I finished my internship in the U.K. and wanted to do something a little bit more interesting than staying on the usual rotation through jobs.

For the latest story in our “Life during COVID” series, we asked experts to describe the impact the pandemic has had on patient health and the practice of medicine in the United States.

CDC experts argued recently that the time is right to revisit the need for a vaccine against West Nile virus, which remains the leading cause of mosquito-borne disease in the United States.

The COVID-19 pandemic has been described by Anthony S. Fauci, MD, as “the most catastrophic acute infectious disease outbreak” in more than a century.

Patients with COVID-19 demonstrate a 43% increased risk for new-onset autoimmune diseases in the 3 to 15 months following acute infection, according to data published in Clinical Rheumatology.

Pulse oximeters more frequently overestimated arterial oxygen saturation among Black patients hospitalized with COVID-19 compared with white patients, leading to delayed COVID-19 therapy, a recent study found.

Several people contracted Aeromonas infections during a Tough Mudder race in California, health officials confirmed.

Inpatient antimicrobial use in U.S. hospitals increased both overall and among specific commonly used antibiotics during peak waves of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers reported.

Adults with vitamin D deficiency may have lower COVID-19 vaccination antibody levels 9 months after the final vaccine dose compared with those with normal vitamin D levels, according to a brief report published in Endocrine.

A large study found that long COVID-related conditions may persist among patients for as long as 2 years after recovery from acute disease, with COVID-19-related hospitalization increasing the risk sharply.