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In kids, lingering symptoms often occurred after mild illness and were more common in unvaccinated youngsters.
Despite concerns, US officials press ahead with intradermal injection strategy amid rising cases.
The CDC also revised its school guidance, which no longer recommends cohorting or the test-to-stay strategy for exposed contacts.
A survey of tuberculosis (TB) treatment centers in Europe found the availability of drug susceptibility testing (DST) for new and repurposed TB drugs in Europe is severely limited, drugs and regimens for drug-resistant TB are limited, and treatment costs for drug-resistant TB are very high, according to a study published this week in Clinical Microbiology and Infection.
Adults with blindness and deafness were less likely to be vaccinated against COVID-19, according to a large study of adults published today in an early online edition of JAMA Ophthalmology.
Japan reported a record daily high today, and South Korea's daily total reached a 4-month high.
More durable protection would be an advantage, since frequent mRNA vaccine boosting may be hard to sustain long-term.
Data from a healthcare-associated infection (HAI) surveillance network in India shows high rates of bloodstream and urinary tract infections (UTIs) and very high levels of antibiotic resistance, researchers reported in The Lancet Global Health.
One day after the United States said it would allow intradermal, fractional dosing of Bavarian Nordic's monkeypox vaccine, Jynneos, the World Health Organization (WHO) called for more trials on the practice.
As part of the push, the CDC began sending clinicians educational materials on how to administer intradermal vaccines.
The findings suggest newborns in low- and middle-income countries acquire resistance genes within hours of birth.
BA.4.6 levels are highest the Midwest region that includes Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska.
The authors say the findings underscore maxminizing vaccine coverage and consideration of boosters for teens, if research supports it.
In the first known estimate of the SARS-CoV spillover risk from bats to people, researchers who studied bat populations in South East Asia and interactions with humans estimate that about 66,280 people a year are infected each year. The team, based at EcoHealth Alliance, published their findings today in Nature Communications.
The authors said high vaccination levels, indoor masking, stepped-up surveillance, and enhanced air filtration kept classroom transmission at a negligible level.
In other new developments, a preprint study found a low percentage of breakthrough infections in vaccinated people, and Israel reported an apparent infection from healthcare exposure.
A scientific literature review for empiric examples of impacts from 10 climate hazards influenced by greenhouse gas emissions found that more than 58% of human diseases caused by pathogens—such as dengue, pneumonia, and Zika virus—are made worse by the climate-related hazards. A team based at the University of Hawaii at Manoa reported the findings today in Nature Climate Change.
New studies continue to shed new light on the long-term impacts of COVID, including the development of cardiovasular and kidney complications in kids.
Meanwhile, the CDC published a clinical and epidemiological snapshot of US cases, revealing that 42% didn't report prodrome symptoms.
