Emerging Diseases News

A review of nearly 250,000 doses of messenger RNA COVID-19 vaccine administered to young children identified no serious side effects from the shots, according to results published in Pediatrics.

The incidence of stroke, thrombocytopenia and thrombosis were rare in patients following COVID-19 vaccination, while all three complications were more likely in patients who received an influenza vaccination, a report found.

Transplant medicine and the field of transplant infectious diseases have faced numerous disruptions and challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to experts.

Among more than 72,000 blood donors in the United States aged 16 years or older, 96% had antibodies against the virus that causes COVID-19 by late last year, according to a new analysis.

President Joe Biden is set to announce former North Carolina secretary of health Mandy K. Cohen, MD, MPH, as the next director of the CDC, according to multiple reports.

BALTIMORE — COVID-19 vaccination status did not significantly reduce the likelihood of becoming pregnant after intrauterine insemination, according to findings presented at the ACOG Annual Clinical & Scientific Meeting.

There were increases in rare pediatric intracranial infections over the past 3 years that coincided with notable spikes in respiratory viruses, although the infections remained rare, according to two reports published Thursday in MMWR.

Researchers found that patients hospitalized withCOVID-19 received antibiotics for potential secondary bacterial infections without clinical indications suggesting they could benefit from the treatment.

Incidence of myocarditis/pericarditis among veterans was low across more than 10 million doses of messenger RNA COVID-19 vaccines, given as a primary or booster dose, administered at the Veterans Health Administration, researchers found.

A pentavalent vaccine against Neisseria meningitidis was shown to be safe and effective in a phase 3 trial conducted among children and young adults in Africa’s meningitis belt, researchers reported in The New England Journal of Medicine.