Pediatric ID News

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.

Rwanda’s Ministry of Health confirmed 26 cases and six deaths in a growing outbreak of Marburg virus, a severe viral hemorrhagic virus spread by bats in some African countries.

ORLANDO — It started with a letter.

The CDC announced that it has awarded more than $176 million to 48 public health partners to strengthen the public health infrastructure and workforce in the United States.

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.

Cost, discomfort with self-administration and privacy concerns are potential barriers to increasing the use of STI self-tests among adolescents and young adults, according to a study.

Without improvements to access and delivery of health care, more than 39 million people may die because of antimicrobial-resistant bacterial infections between 2025 and 2050, according to new estimates.