Increased age, male sex, non-Hispanic black ethnicity, and certain underlying health conditions are associated with a greater risk of hospitalization from COVID-19, according to an analysis of data from more than 5,000 hospitalized adults. A group based at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported its findings today in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
A report this week from the British Poultry Council (BPC) shows steep reductions in antibiotic use in recent years.
Today The Lancet published the results of two nonrandomized trials (called Sputnik V) of a Russian COVID-19 vaccine candidate, which showed no serious adverse events and demonstrated that the vaccine elicited an antibody response in study participants within 21 days of administration. The phase 1/2 trials were conducted in 76 healthy adults.
A "proactive hunting surveillance" approach of shooting and testing deer likely to harbor the causative agent of chronic wasting disease (CWD) without leading to undesirable population declines achieved a 99% CWD-free rate within 3 to 5 years, in comparison to 10 years using the typical preemptive sampling strategy, according to a Norwegian modeling study published today in Nature Communications.
One more Ebola infection has been confirmed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Equateur province outbreak, raising the overall total to 107, the World Health Organization (WHO) African regional office said on Twitter today.
Seemingly healthy people with COVID-19 can spread the disease to others as soon as 2 days after infection, an analysis of a coronavirus cluster traced to four live music clubs in Osaka, Japan, shows.
Cases in the Ebola outbreak in western Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have reached 100, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported today, with cases nearly doubling in the past 5 weeks.
Standard, symptom-specific international disease codes lack sensitivity and have poor negative predictive value (NPV) for characteristic COVID-19 symptoms, which could skew conclusions derived from them, a cohort study published today in JAMA Network Open shows.
Patients with confirmed asymptomatic COVID-19 infections shed virus at similar levels to those who are experiencing symptoms, underscoring the importance of public health actions to control the spread of the virus, researchers from South Korea reported yesterday in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Children younger than 5 years with mild or moderate COVID-19 have much higher levels of coronavirus genetic material in their nose and throat than do older children and adults, according to a research letter published yesterday in JAMA Pediatrics.
