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In the wake of media reports from India that said the country has detected its first human avian flu case, the health ministry today confirmed that H5 was found in a child who had underlying health conditions and died on Jul 12. The ministry report in Hindi was translated and posted by Avian Flu Diary (AFD), an infectious disease news blog.
Patients with a history of COVID-19 were more likely to have side effects after their first dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine than those who were never infected, according to a Vaccine study yesterday.
Two doses of either Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccine were 80% effective against the Delta COVID-19 variant.
Multiple groups call for addressing major global vaccine inequality issues.
Also, ACIP continues to recommend the J&J COVID vaccine despite concerns over Guillain-Barre syndrome.
Children and teens spread COVID-19 to household adults after returning home from a sleep-away camp in June 2020, according to correspondence published in the New England Journal of Medicine yesterday.
Hispanics saw the largest drop in life expectancy—3 years.
Antibiotic-resistant blood infection in pediatric pneumonia patients was tied to a 17-fold mortality risk.
About 1 million have been orphaned, and 1.1 million lost a primary caregiver.
Nations seeing large jumps in cases include Botswana, Vietnam, the US, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the UK.
A study yesterday in the Journal of School Health finds that while 39 elementary and high school students in a Virginia public school district rode school buses while infected with SARS-CoV-2, investigators found no evidence of viral transmission to other students or adults.
The Canadian Veterinary Medical Association (CVMA) and the country's Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Network have published a new One Health–focused report that proposes improvements to a pan-Canadian AMR governance structure and optimal models for responding to AMR.
The latest report looks at COVID-19 relief fund allocation, stockpiles, supply chains, and more.
Also, a new report says COVID-19 activity has driven India's excess deaths to 4 million.
Prescriptions for kids dropped 27.1% last year during COVID, with antibiotic prescriptions declining at twice that rate.
The rate is up from 50% for the week of Jul 3, and in some parts of the country the percentage is even higher.
While Latino people have lower rates of mortality despite their higher rates of poverty compared with White people in the United States, the COVID-19 pandemic erased it, at least in Los Angeles County, according to a JAMA research letter yesterday.
The antibiotic didn't lower the rate of symptoms by 14 days in non-hospitalized patients.
Elsewhere, countries in Southeast Asia report more daily record highs, and Tunisia's surge has toppled its healthcare system.
Plus, mask recommendations are returning, with a pediatrics group calling for them for schoolchildren.
