Emerging Diseases News

As the COVID-19 pandemic grew, so did the feeling that the field of ID might begin to attract more physicians, drawn by the important and rewarding work that was so suddenly in the public eye.

I grew up in Bangkok, where I saw first-hand the impact of cholera, dengue, malaria and other tropical diseases — and experienced the early waves of the seventh pandemic of cholera.

Physicians have cited overwork and burnout as contributing factors making it difficult to recruit physicians for a career in infectious diseases.

During the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a temporary increase in unstable or unsafe living situations and intimate partner violence for pregnant people in the U.S., according to an analysis published in JAMA Network Open.

SEATTLE — Study findings presented Wednesday at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections provided more evidence of the effectiveness of vaccines against mpox.

A study that used wastewater signals to identify cases of COVID-19 found that even a small increase in the proportion of people wearing masks at elementary schools in one California county significantly reduced the chance of a case.

After 3 years as an all-virtual meeting, the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections returns this year to an in-person format at the new Summit Convention Center in Seattle.

Among patients with COVID-19 who visited EDs, those with both psychiatric and substance use disorders had greater odds of hospitalization compared with those with one or neither type of disorder, according to a study in JAMA Psychiatry.

An updated analysis published in The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews has fueled debate about the effectiveness of masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

Pandemic-related nonpharmaceutical interventions likely contributed to the decline in invasive bacterial disease incidence in the U.S. in 2020, not reductions in testing, according to a study in The Journal of Infectious Diseases.