Respiratory Infections News

A person in Texas tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza after having exposure to dairy cattle that are presumed to also be infected with the virus, health officials reported.

Moderna announced positive interim results from a phase 3 trial of its next-generation COVID-19 vaccine, which the company said will help pave the way for its combination shot against COVID-19 and influenza.

Among patients with tuberculosis in high-incidence countries, more than 80% did not report persistent cough and more than 60% did not report cough all together, according to results published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.

Around one in eight hospitalized adults treated for community-acquired pneumonia in a Michigan study were inappropriately diagnosed, and most of those patients received unneeded antibiotics, according to a study.

Influenza vaccine manufacturers in the United States said this week that they have plans to remove a potentially extinct influenza B lineage from their vaccines and offer only trivalent shots next season.

The updated COVID-19 vaccines were approximately 54% effective against symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection and offered protection against JN.1 and XBB viral lineages, according to early estimates published Thursday by the CDC.

SARS-CoV-2 rebound risk is more likely related to the individual person, rather than reinfection or resistance to treatment such as Paxlovid, according to two studies.

The FDA in 2023 approved treatments for several hospital-associated infections and fully approved a long-used COVID-19 medication, among other non-vaccine-related regulatory decisions.

Patients who died of a COVID-19 and tuberculosis coinfection had a shorter median time to death compared with patients who died of either COVID-19 or TB alone, according to results published in European Respiratory Journal.

Similar to SARS-CoV-2, which can cause long COVID, people hospitalized with influenza are at an increased risk for health issues long after they have cleared the infection, according to a study.