Infection Control News

WHO on Monday announced it will start using the term ”mpox” to refer to monkeypox disease, citing “racist and stigmatizing language” used during this year’s global outbreak as a reason.

Almost 40 million children missed their first or second dose of measles vaccine in 2021 — a new record — as measles vaccine coverage reached its lowest level since 2008, according to a report in MMWR.

Since the beginning of November, the central Ohio region has experienced an outbreak of measles that now totals 24 cases — all of them in unvaccinated children, according to the city of Columbus.

New data published in an MMWR report showed that patients with COVID-19 given a prescription for Paxlovid had a lower rate of hospitalization.

Data from a phase 2/3 trial showed that Moderna’s bivalent COVID-19 booster shot outperformed the company’s original vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 omicron subvariants.

A surge of respiratory syncytial virus, an early start to influenza season and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic have caused a “tripledemic” in the United States, overwhelming hospitals, experts said.

NEW YORK — Common viruses have returned “with a vengeance” this year, according to an expert at the Infectious Diseases in Children Symposium.

NEW YORK — In this video from the Infectious Diseases in Children Symposium, Yvonne A. Maldonado, MD, discusses three emerging or reemerging infectious diseases: polio, monkeypox and highly pathogenic avian influenza virus.

NEW YORK — In this video filmed at the Infectious Diseases in Children Symposium, John V. Williams, MD, describes multiple interventions in development against respiratory syncytial virus, which is currently surging in the United States.

NEW YORK — It is hoped that the future of COVID-19 vaccines for children will include simplifying the process of getting shots into their arms, CDC medical officer Sara E. Oliver, MD, MSPH, says in this video.