Emerging Diseases News

Being infected with SARS-CoV-2 at any time during pregnancy was associated with greater risks for maternal death, severe maternal morbidity and neonatal morbidity, according to the findings of an international meta-analysis.

A self-evidence data platform may help patients with autoimmune diseases and long COVID avoid certain lifestyle and environmental triggers, according to a press release.

The most common neurological manifestations of COVID-19 for individuals living in Saudi Arabia were headache, changes in smell and taste, muscle pain, loss of consciousness and seizures, which were similar to global reports.

Children hospitalized with COVID-19 who had a secondary viral infection like respiratory syncytial virus or rhinovirus were around twice as likely to have severe respiratory illness, a study found.

A population-based survey of U.S. adults who previously reported having COVID-19 showed a high burden of long COVID, with some reporting symptoms more than 12 months after their initial infection.

Health officials said a safety signal detected by a national surveillance system is “very unlikely” to represent a “true clinical risk” for stroke among older people who received the Pfizer-BioNTech bivalent COVID-19 booster.

Patients with injection drug use-associated infections were less likely to be readmitted to the hospital or die when they were treated by a clinical team that integrated infectious disease and substance use disorder care, researchers found.

In a study of patients with COVID-19 who underwent cardiac MRI, among the signs of cardiac involvement in COVID-19 were cardiac symptoms, ECG abnormalities and cardiac biomarker elevations.

Health officials on Wednesday declared an end to an Ebola outbreak in Uganda that killed 55 people and infected at least 142 in less than 4 months.

Patients who have received a COVID-19 vaccine demonstrate a “slight but significant” change of developing IgA vasculitis, but no more than with other vaccines, according to data published in the Journal of Rheumatology.