Emerging Diseases News

The FDA on Thursday announced that it has greenlit the updated COVID-19 vaccines manufactured by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech, which the companies said should be available within days.

In new guidance, the Infectious Diseases Society of America suggested that immunocompromised patients take the monoclonal antibody pemivibart as pre-exposure prophylaxis to prevent severe COVID-19.

A multicenter study identified factors associated with mortality among patients with Candida auris bloodstream infection.

Compared with 2019, in 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitalizations for acute MI were down but in-hospital mortality in that population rose in the U.S., researchers reported in the Korean Circulation Journal.

Healio’s infectious diseases and pediatrics news teams received an APEX award for a 2023 report on the CDC and FDA’s performances during the COVID-19 pandemic, which was part of a larger series called “Life during COVID.”

Among patients with systemic autoimmune disease in a large, real-world cohort, 29.8% reported long COVID, with frequent impacts to quality of life, following infection, according to data published in The Journal of Rheumatology.

WHO on Wednesday declared the spread of mpox in Africa to be a global public health emergency.

The incidence of heart attack and stroke is lower among people who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 compared with before vaccination and people who have not received a vaccine, according to a study.

There are several methods and tools clinicians can utilize to improve vaccine confidence and boost immunization rates as the respiratory virus season approaches, according to an expert panel.

Routine childhood vaccinations prevented more than 1.1 million deaths among children born during the past 30 years in the United States, CDC researchers found.