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Though kids' COVID cases aren't usually severe, cases are rising expotentially, and experts say data are ugently needed to gauge long-term effects of illness.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) yesterday sent a Health Alert Network notice to health providers warning that cases of measles and mumps have been detected in people recently evacuated from Afghanistan.
A study of preterm newborns in Canada found high rates of antimicrobial use in the first 7 days after birth, researchers reported last week in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.
Follow-up tests of blood samples found reactions to the PEG component, findings that could be used to guide possible reformulation, the authors said.
The development comes as welcome news, given India's importance as a global vaccine supplier, especially to COVAX.
The trial used a smaller Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine dose than the version used for older childen and adults.
A rapidly growing Salmonella Oranienburg outbreak linked to an unknown food source has sickened 127 people, some of them part of restaurant clusters, from 25 states, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in a Sep 17 announcement.
All FDA-approved vaccines, however, offer substantial protection against hospitalization.
Experts approve a third dose for emergency use, and only for the most vulnerable.
Vaccine uptake among certified nursing assistants, who provide most direct care, is only 49%.
XDR Campylobacter cases might stem from improper antibiotic use in the commercial dog industry.
Since March 2020, children's body mass index (BMI) has increased at almost double its prepandemic rate, according to a study today in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).
A phase 3 clinical trial conducted in Malawi has found that a single dose of typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV) is safe and more than 80% effective at protecting children against typhoid fever, an international team of researchers reported yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
High-level groups and vaccine companies say there's enough vaccine, but several obstacles block doses from getting to low- and middle-income countries.
FDA says any booster will have to affect deaths and hospitalizations, not just immune response.
Israelis who got a booster dose had 11.3 times fewer COVID-19 infections.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) yesterday launched a toolkit to help healthcare payers support appropriate antibiotic use in outpatient settings.
Almost half of New York women who had been trying to become pregnant before COVID-19 stopped trying during the first few months of the pandemic, according to survey results published in JAMA Network Open yesterday.
"We are no longer able to provide the standard of care to each and every patient who needs our help."
