Pediatric ID News

A pentavalent vaccine against Neisseria meningitidis was shown to be safe and effective in a phase 3 trial conducted among children and young adults in Africa’s meningitis belt, researchers reported in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance forecasted that the global supply of oral cholera vaccine is likely to remain limited through 2025 if current outbreak trends continue.

New HIV infections in the United States declined by around 12% from 2017 to 2021, led by large decreases among young people, according to CDC data published Tuesday.

An FDA advisory committee on Thursday voted in favor of a respiratory syncytial virus vaccine that would be administered to pregnant people to protect their infants.

The Jynneos vaccine was up to 86% effective at preventing mpox in people who received two doses during the United States outbreak, according to three studies published Thursday.

A study of more than 14,000 febrile infants found that UTIs, bacteremia and bacterial meningitis were less common among those who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 than those who did not, according to findings published in JAMA Network Open.

The public health and national emergencies declared by the United States in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic expire at the end of the day on May 11.

Cases of salmonellosis continue to cause significant morbidity in infants, according to an analysis of surveillance data published in Pediatrics.

An outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli in Tennessee was caused by raw milk consumption among members of a cow-share, according to a study.

WHO recently ended the COVID-19 global public health emergency — and the United States will soon lift its own emergency declarations — but questions about vaccination, especially for children, persist.