Respiratory Medicine News

Routine childhood vaccinations prevented more than 1.1 million deaths among children born during the past 30 years in the United States, CDC researchers found.

WHO this week announced a project to speed development of a messenger RNA vaccine against highly pathogenic avian influenza in humans.

The Pan American Health Organization issued an epidemiological alert in July regarding a significant rise in pertussis cases in the Americas and across the globe, according to a press release.

Influenza is responsible for significant mortality and hospitalization rates in the United States, ranging from 4,900 to 51,000 deaths and 100,000 to 710,000 hospitalizations annually between 2010 and 2023, according to the CDC.

The risk for developing long COVID declined over the course of the pandemic but has remained significant, researchers reported.

The CDC said it has confirmed four new cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza in Colorado poultry workers and is aware of a fifth presumptive-positive case.

The severity of a SARS-CoV-2 reinfection is likely to be similar to the severity of a patient’s initial infection, researchers found.

Children absorb significantly less nicotine when they are exposed to secondhand vapor from an e-cigarette compared with secondhand smoke, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

A first-in-human trial of a nasal COVID-19 vaccine candidate began enrolling adults aged 18 to 64 years who have received at least three prior doses of a COVID-19 messenger RNA vaccine, according to the NIH.

The monoclonal antibody nirsevimab reduced the risk that infants would be hospitalized for respiratory syncytial virus-associated bronchiolitis, according to a study published Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine.