Pediatric ID News

LOS ANGELES — Healio is on-site again for IDWeek, which is being held at the Los Angeles Convention Center from Oct. 16-19.

Vaccination coverage among kindergarteners in the United States is still declining from pre-pandemic levels, and some states are reporting exemption rates of more than 5%, according to the latest CDC data.

As older Americans continue to shoulder much of the COVID-19 burden, new data show that most went without a vaccine last winter and that those who got sick rarely received antivirals.

Children with health care-associated respiratory syncytial virus were more likely to need respiratory support, compared with children with community-associated RSV, according to a recent study.

This is the second respiratory disease season with two new powerful tools to protect infants from severe respiratory syncytial virus disease, and experts are optimistic that uptake will improve from last season.

An ED program flagging high-risk patients for optional syphilis testing more than doubled the number of infections the department detected, according to a study.

Vaccination reduced influenza-related hospitalizations by around one-third in the Southern Hemisphere this year, according to interim data published Thursday by the CDC.

Brazil became the 20th country or territory in the world to eliminate lymphatic filariasis as a public health crisis after nearly 3 decades of efforts to stop the painful, disfiguring parasitic infection, according to WHO.

ORLANDO — It started with a letter.

The investigational antiviral ziresovir showed promise for the treatment of respiratory syncytial virus infection in infants during a phase 3 trial in China, researchers reported in The New England Journal of Medicine.