Emerging Diseases News

Among patients hospitalized with COVID-19, men were more likely than women to have CV complications, but the difference was not explained by lower rates of past CVD in women, researchers reported in BMJ Medicine.

An experimental vaccine against Marburg virus showed promise in a first-in-human phase 1 trial and could one day be used to stop outbreaks of the disease, the NIH said.

Adults who contract COVID-19 have a higher risk for developing incident diabetes in the 90 days after the infection compared with before the infection, according to data published in JAMA Network Open.

Compared with other hospital patients, those with COVID-19 reported greater anxiety and perceived trauma, according to findings published in BMC Psychiatry.

The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a rapid adoption of telemedicine among rheumatologists and a delaying of advanced treatments for rheumatoid arthritis, according to data published in Rheumatology Advances in Practice.

Patients with large vessel occlusion strokes who underwent mechanical thrombectomy had lower mortality rates and higher rates of routine discharge in 2019 compared with 2020, although mortality rates shifted with surges of COVID-19.

Prolonged COVID-19 symptoms, including severe fatigue, were more common among patients infected during the pre-delta period compared with the later delta and omicron periods, researchers found.

Although the breakthrough infection rate has been high in patients using rituximab during the later stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, a small proportion of those who are fully vaccinated develop severe outcomes, according to data.

Rhinoviruses and enteroviruses accounted for nearly three-quarters of viral detections among children during the COVID-19 pandemic and persisted amid declines in other viruses, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open.

Antibiotic prescribing was high among patients with COVID-19, but researchers found that antimicrobial stewardship programs with prospective audit and feedback helped optimize antibiotic treatments among these patients.