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Uganda has reported one more lab-confirmed Ebola infection, which involves a 23-year-old woman who is a healthcare worker in Mubende, one of the outbreak's hot spots, according to an update yesterday from the World Health Organization (WHO) Uganda office.
Both of its updated Omicron boosters against Omicron prompt a strong antibody response.
Veterans with mild to moderate infections seen as outpatients underused therapies, including monoclonal antibodies and antivirals
A UK study suggests that Omicron BA.2 is tied to more symptoms and impeded daily activities than BA.1, and Taiwanese researchers describe fatal cerebral edema in 6 kids with BA.2.
Several countries, including many in Europe, have reported more highly pathogenic H5N1 avian flu outbreaks in poultry.
A study today in BMC Medicine highlights the toll that the COVID-19 pandemic has taken on the diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) in high-burden countries, particularly in vulnerable populations.
The sensitivities of 3 commonly used rapid antigen tests were very low for Omicron in asymptomatic people.
Uganda's health ministry yesterday reported that Ebola has spread to Jinja district in the southeastern part of the country (see Google Maps image below).
Two of the 4 new studies show that SARS-CoV-2 can profoundly damage the brain for months.
New data show that 32% of US cases have been in Black people, 31% in Hispanics, and 30% in White people.
"C diff is one of the CDC's top five urgent antibiotic resistance threats. But it's the only one that isn't nationally notifiable."
A flu surges comes as RSV continues to overwhelm pediatric hospitals in some states.
A study of 97 hospitals in the United States and Canada found that the incidence of urinary tract infection (UTI) and invasive bacterial infection (IBI) in infants with fever fell to pre-pandemic levels by early 2022, researchers reported yesterday in Pediatrics.
Repeat SARS-CoV-2 infections confer significant additional risk of adverse multi-organ medical conditions and poor outcomes such as hospitalization, diabetes, kidney disease, mental illness, death, and diseases affecting the lungs, heart, brain, blood, and musculoskeletal systems, suggests a study published yesterday in Nature Medicine.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Weekly COVID-19 hospitalizations of infants younger than 6 months rose 11-fold from April to July 2022.
Kids were 30% more likely than controls to have symptoms 3 month or more after COVID-19.
Some European firms are closing or scaling back operations, fueling fears of shortages of essential drugs.
JAMA Network Open published a new study yesterday showing higher cord blood COVID-19 antibodies in women who were vaccinated compared with those who were infected with COVID-19, suggesting vaccination produces more than 10-fold higher antibody concentrations in unborn babies compared to natural infections.
A study of more than 3 million patients with bacterial and viral respiratory infections found that inappropriate antibiotic prescriptions were associated with increased risk of adverse events and higher healthcare costs, researchers reported today in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
