Pediatric ID News

Since April 2022, more than 1,300 children in 35 countries have developed acute severe hepatitis of unknown etiology, with the United States and the United Kingdom accounting for 65% of global cases, according to recent WHO data.

Malaria cases and deaths stabilized in 2021 after increasing in 2020 as the mosquito-borne disease took a back seat to COVID-19 and an exploding pandemic.

Protection against the omicron variant from the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine waned after 3 months in children aged 5 to 11 years but was restored by a booster shot, according to study findings published in JAMA Network Open.

The manufacturers of the COVID-19 vaccines authorized for use as additional booster shots in the United States all released positive clinical trial data on their retooled shots ahead of the start of the holiday season.

Experts argued for the development of COVID-19 vaccines that can be delivered at the site of infection, but questioned whether it is possible to make a mucosal vaccine that prevents SARS-CoV-2 infection — and not just severe disease.

At the end of this month, Anthony S. Fauci, MD, will officially step down as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which he has led for nearly 4 decades.

The CDC and Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists published a revised case definition of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, a potentially serious complication of SARS-CoV-2 infection.

The prevalence of bacterial infections in hospitalized infants — after rising during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic — fell to prepandemic levels earlier this year, according to a study published in Pediatrics.

CDC researchers published a resource for providers that outlines the epidemiology and clinical features of mpox in children and adolescents and how it can be diagnosed and managed.

After a sharp increase in global malaria cases and deaths as COVID-19 spread in 2020, WHO reported that both cases and deaths remained relatively stable in 2021.