Pediatric ID News

In a new clinical report, the AAP provides strategies to help pediatricians and other health care providers address parental vaccine concerns and increase immunization rates.

An early analysis of data from the 2023-2024 respiratory season showed that cases of Mycoplasma pneumoniae are on the rebound in the United States after declining during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to data reported in MMWR.

Bucking CDC guidance, Florida’s top health official said parents and guardians can decide for themselves whether to send unvaccinated students to an elementary school with an ongoing measles outbreak.

Diagnostic stewardship, along with targeted prevention efforts and a testing and treatment clinical care pathway, reduced hospital-onset cases of Clostridioides difficile by more than 50% in a children’s hospital, researchers reported.

More than one-third of children aged 9 to 17 years in the United States had received one or more HPV vaccines doses as of 2022, according to a new CDC report.

An estimated 5.8 million children in the United States have had long COVID, which may occur in up to 20% of children infected with SARS-CoV-2, according to the authors of a new state-of-the-art narrative review published in Pediatrics.

HHS released a national plan to reduce the incidence of vector-borne diseases in the United States, which has doubled over the last 20 years.

Patients with confirmed Ebola virus disease were around half as likely to die if they were vaccinated against the virus than if they were not, results from a study showed.

Amoxicillin remains effective against acute otitis media, according to the results of a small study published in the Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society.

I wasn’t so much hooked as I was hoodwinked!