Infectious Disease News

There was a “marked decrease” in COVID-19 vaccine uptake among nursing home personnel last season, according to researchers, who attributed the decline to cost and the end of the CMS’s COVID-19 vaccine requirement in mid-2023.

Several shifts in temperatures and weather patterns broke new records in 2023, threatening the health, nutrition and livelihood of people across the globe, a new report revealed.

An Iowa resident who traveled to West Africa has died of Lassa fever after returning home, Iowa health officials said.

LOS ANGELES — Neutralizing antibodies against mpox generated by the Jynneos vaccine were short lived — lasting less than a year — if patients had never received a smallpox vaccine as children, researchers said.

The relationship between health care providers and referral sources can present complex legal challenges.

LOS ANGELES — A panel of experts awarded David Roach, MD, instructor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and his team a $5,000 grant to aid in the development of a low-cost, easy-to-use assay for bacterial bloodstream infections.

A CDC advisory committee on Thursday voted unanimously to “harmonize” serogroup B meningococcal vaccine recommendations for healthy adolescents and young adults and children who have a higher risk for infection.

The CDC on Friday announced 26 more cases in the multistate outbreak of Escherichia coli linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders, bringing the total to 75 cases in 13 states.

LOS ANGELES — Lenacapavir, the twice-yearly injectable HIV drug, could potentially transform HIV prevention if it is approved as PrEP, research has shown.

Data from a phase 3 trial designed to compare pralsetinib with standard therapy for certain patients with advanced lung cancer revealed a risk for severe — and potentially fatal — infections with the drug, according to its manufacturer.