About 2 in 10 US school districts have said they will continue, or are considering continuing, distance learning after the COVID-19 pandemic ends, citing student and parent demand, according to a Rand Corporation study released yesterday.
Daily infectious disease (ID) consultation in an Italian hospital was associated with reduced antibiotic consumption compared with weekly ID consultation, Italian researchers reported late last week in BMC Infectious Diseases.
During recent meetings to recommend the flu strains to include in the Southern Hemisphere's 2021 flu season, the World Health Organization (WHO) advisory group also reviewed the latest developments with zoonotic strains and recommended two new candidate vaccine viruses for pandemic preparedness.
Slaughterhouse workers with close camel contact had a 30% positive test rate.
Seven more Ebola cases and three more deaths have been confirmed over the past few days in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC's) Equateur province outbreak, raising the total to 41 cases, which includes 17 deaths.
US drug maker Pfizer Inc. and Germany biopharmaceutical company BioNTech announced today that the first US participants in a clinical trial for a novel coronavirus vaccine have begun receiving doses.
Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) vaccines in England and Germany have demonstrated safety and immune response in phase 1 trials, becoming the second and third such vaccines to do so, according to studies yesterday in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.
Just days before the World Health Organization (WHO) was prepared to declare the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) over, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, said today that officials have confirmed a new case.
In a snapshot of MERS-CoV cases in Saudi Arabia in February, the country reported 18 cases, 5 of them fatal, from 9 different cities, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday.
There was a sharp uptick last week in US clinic visits for influenza-like illness (ILI), according to the latest FluView report today from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), but CDC officials say that could reflect more people seeking care for respiratory illness as COVID-19 spreads across the country.
