Infection Control News

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, infectious disease experts made contributions to help control the outbreak and improve public understanding of the new disease.

The FDA has released new recommendations to measure blood donor eligibility that will eliminate time-based deferrals and screening questions targeting men who have sex with men and the women who have sex with them.

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.

A network-based model demonstrated that men who have sex with men drive the Neisseria gonorrhoeae epidemic and that intensive screening in the low-risk population had little impact on decreasing transmission rates.

GSK’s Arexvy, a vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus, was approved by the FDA and is expected to be available this fall for adults aged 60 years and older.

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.

Last April, Rochelle P. Walensky, MD, MPH, requested an internal and external review of the CDC’s performance during the COVID-19 pandemic.

U.S. adults who reported negative health care experiences because of discrimination based on their race or ethnicity were less likely to be vaccinated against COVID-19, a study found.