Vaccination News

The number of reported cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis in the United States increased between 2020 and 2021, CDC data show.

SEATTLE — An epidemiologist whose hospital responded to a recent measles outbreak described how the hospital was able to eliminate patient exposures with an intervention bundle that used electronic medical records.

Although nearly 19 million adults in the United States may have long COVID, recent research has suggested that barriers to care remain.

The United States will commit $5 billion to develop new COVID-19 vaccines and treatments that will work against future variants of SARS-CoV-2, Biden administration officials told reporters.

Respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, showed signs of returning to its pre-pandemic seasonality this past winter, but researchers cautioned that off-season epidemics are still possible.

New data suggest that respiratory syncytial virus may be returning to its pre-COVID-19 seasonality — a winter peak — which could help determine when people should be vaccinated against it, researchers said.

Over the last decade, there have been several updates to pneumococcal vaccinations in adolescents and adults, often leading to confusion among health care providers.

Lower vaccination rates led to a surge in cases of one type of vaccine-derived polio last year, according to a report published Thursday in MMWR.

Treatment with a monoclonal antibody within 2 days of a COVID-19 diagnosis reduced the risk for hospitalization or death by almost 40%, according to a study that assessed patient outcomes over a nearly 2-year period.

In recent years, there has been a substantial increase in the number of U.S. cases of Candida auris, which has been deemed a pathogen of concern, according to experts.