Infection Control News

Respiratory tract and total body burden of SARS-CoV-2 infection could predict how long patients will take to recover and provide insight into long COVID, according to a recent study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.

The Asian mosquito Anopheles stephensi, linked to a 40-fold increase in malaria cases in Djibouti over the last decade, has been blamed for an unprecedented dry-season malaria outbreak in Ethiopia, according to a study.

Last week, the CDC announced that Director Rochelle P. Walensky, MD, again tested positive for COVID-19 following a course of Paxlovid and a previous negative test.

Children aged younger than 8 years are at an elevated risk for monkeypox complications and should be considered a high-risk group, according to a review article published in The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal.

Globally, routine vaccination coverage among infants plummeted to a 13-year low in 2021, according to data published Thursday in MMWR.

COVID-19 vaccine equity has improved as the pandemic has progressed, some disparities in access remain prompting WHO to maintain the pandemic’s public health emergency of international concern, or PHEIC, status.

An early spike in influenza cases in Chile and other countries in the Southern Hemisphere could serve as a warning for the rest of the world, according to experts.

Pfizer reported topline data from a phase 3 trial of its respiratory syncytial virus vaccine for pregnant women, which showed high vaccine efficacy in newborns.

One dose of a monoclonal antibody safely protected healthy adults from malaria infection during the 6-month malaria season in Mali, according to data published in The New England Journal of Medicine and presented at a medical conference.

Healio spoke with Meg Doherty, MD, MPH, PhD, Director Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programmes at WHO, about elimination efforts for hepatitis D, including how hepatitis D would be affected by WHO Global Hepatitis Elimination goals and what U.S. physician can do to help work towards hepatitis elimination.