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News Scan for Aug 19, 2021

Convalescent plasma didn't prevent severe COVID-19 in high-risk patients

Early use of convalescent plasma didn't prevent COVID-19 progression in a group of high-risk adult outpatients, concludes a National Institutes of Health (NIH) study yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).

  • Convalescent plasma for COVID
  • Facebook ads and COVID-19 behavior
  • New clues in Ivory Coast Ebola case
  • H5N6 avian flu case in China

News Scan for Aug 17, 2021

Ivory Coast launches Ebola vaccination, is monitoring 9 contacts

The Ivory Coast yesterday launched an Ebola vaccination campaign aimed at frontline health workers and other high-risk groups, part of the response into an imported Ebola case involving a woman who had just arrived from Guinea.

  • Ivory Coast Ebola vaccination
  • Antibiotic use in animals
  • Salmonella shrimp outbreak
  • India H5N1 avian flu details

News Scan for Aug 12, 2021

Moderna COVID-19 vaccine found to be non-inferior in adolescents

Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine was safe in adolescents 12 to 17 years old, with a similar immune response to that in young adults, according to results of an ongoing phase 2-3 trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine yesterday.

  • Moderna COVID-19 vaccine in adolescents
  • Malaria monoclonal antibody preventive
  • Jamestown Canyon virus in NH
  • H5N1 avian flu in Ivory Coast

News Scan for Aug 11, 2021

Corticosteroid tied to shorter recovery in non-severe COVID-19

Inhaled budesonide, a corticosteroid often used for Crohn's disease, was tied to a shorter recovery time in COVID-19 patients who were at a higher risk of severe infection, according to a study published in The Lancet yesterday.

  • COVID-19 and corticosteroids
  • US COVID testing
  • H5N6 avian flu case in China
  • More breaded chicken Salmonella cases

News Scan for Aug 06, 2021

China confirms 2 more H5N6 avian flu infections

Chinese officials reported two more H5N6 avian influenza infections in patients from two different provinces, raising the country's total this year to 13, the Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection (CHP) said today in a statement.

  • H5N6 avian flu cases in China
  • Azithromycin-resistant gonorrhea in Germany
  • Polio cases in 4 countries

News Scan for Aug 03, 2021

Rising incidence of myopia in kids tied to indoor time during pandemic

A new study based on data from Hong Kong shows a rising incidence of myopia, or short-sightedness, in children during the COVID-19 pandemic, possibly linked to increasing time spent indoors and on screens. The study was published in the British Journal of Ophthalmology.

  • Kids' myopia and COVID-19
  • COVID-19 and childbirth
  • H5N1 avian flu in Togo

News Scan for Jul 26, 2021

COVID in dorms led to roommate transmission 20% of the time, study says

Out of 574 multiple-occupancy dorm rooms, roommate transmissions occurred only 20% of the time, according to a study during the fall 2020 semester at the University of Colorado Boulder.

  • COVID-19 in college roommates
  • COVID vaccine for kidney recipients
  • Interspecies CWD spread
  • Saudi MERS case
  • More H5N6 avian flu cases in China

News Scan for Jul 23, 2021

India reports its first human avian flu case

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.

  • H5 avian flu case in India
  • Low global flu levels
  • African vaccine-derived polio cases

News Scan for Jul 14, 2021

More research needed on heavy impact of antibiotic resistance, report says

A Wellcome report yesterday says more research is needed on drug-resistant bacterial infections (DRIs), but current data indicate that DRIs can be more likely to occur—and have more serious ramifications—in people with health conditions like cancer or who have received extensive treatment such as surgery.

  • Impact of antibiotic-resistant infections
  • H5N6 avian flu case in China
  • TB vaccine candidate

News Scan for Jul 08, 2021

Urine culture stewardship linked to reduced catheter infections

A urine culture stewardship initiative at a teaching hospital in Michigan reduced overuse of urine cultures and was associated with a significant decline in catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs), researchers reported today in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.

  • Urine culture stewardship
  • Cashew cheese Salmonella
  • Avian flu in 2 nations

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