Pediatric ID News

WASHINGTON — Experts at the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting suggested reframing conversations about HPV to encourage parents to get children vaccinated starting at age 9 years.

The United States met perinatal HIV elimination goals for the first time in 2019, according to a study led by CDC researchers.

WHO announced that it is partnering with other global health groups on a campaign called “The Big Catch-Up” to promote childhood vaccination amid a decline in routine immunizations in more than 100 countries during the COVID-19 pandemic.

More than 40% of healthy mothers recruited for a study testing fecal transplantation for babies born by cesarean section tested positive for potentially harmful pathogens, Finnish researchers reported.

HHS announced a $1.1 billion program to keep COVID-19 vaccines and treatments free for uninsured people once the public health and national emergencies end next month in the United States.

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SEATTLE — An epidemiologist whose hospital responded to a recent measles outbreak described how the hospital was able to eliminate patient exposures with an intervention bundle that used electronic medical records.

SEATTLE — The first U.S. cluster of pediatric Candida auris cases was likely caused by shared mobile medical equipment that was not properly sanitized after being used for adult patients, an investigation found.

Infants born to people infected with SARS-CoV-2 during pregnancy were five times as likely to test positive for the virus from age 0 to 6 months during the omicron period than previous waves, according to research published in Pediatrics.

New data suggest that respiratory syncytial virus may be returning to its pre-COVID-19 seasonality — a winter peak — which could help determine when people should be vaccinated against it, researchers said.