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Despite concerns, US officials press ahead with intradermal injection strategy amid rising cases.
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.
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.
More durable protection would be an advantage, since frequent mRNA vaccine boosting may be hard to sustain long-term.
Japan reported a record daily high today, and South Korea's daily total reached a 4-month high.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The authors said high vaccination levels, indoor masking, stepped-up surveillance, and enhanced air filtration kept classroom transmission at a negligible level.
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.
With COVID activity still high in many counties, Paxlovid prescribing is rising as another study shed light on rebound prevalence.
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.
Polio in New York state is circulating more widely than thought, with wastewater sampling revealing traces of the virus in a second county, the New York Department of Health (NYDH) announced yesterday.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
