Infectious Diseases News

• Vitamins, OTC Drugs May Interact With HIV Antiretroviral Therapy OTC medications, food supplements, and other drugs may interact with antiretroviral therapy and harm people living with HIV, researchers in Denmark report.
  Medscape Medical News, May 20, 2022
• Fever After a Tropical Trip: A Guide to Differential Diagnosis As people resume vacation travel, clinicians will have patients who present with fever after their trips. A specialist reviews the procedures and questions necessary for differential diagnosis.
  Medscape Medical News, May 20, 2022
• France Says First Suspected Case of Monkeypox Detected in Paris Region A first suspected case of the monkeypox virus on French territory has been detected in the Paris/Ile-de-France region, the French Health Ministry said on Thursday, amid signs of the virus' spreading around the world.
  Reuters Health Information, May 19, 2022
• Siga Gets Requests for Smallpox Drug in Europe as Monkeypox Spreads Siga Technologies has received requests for the use of its smallpox drug to treat monkeypox, its chief executive officer told Reuters on Thursday, as cases spread in parts of Europe.
  Reuters Health Information, May 19, 2022
• Africa Has Contained Monkey Pox Outbreaks During COVID Pandemic: Africa CDC Several outbreaks of monkey pox in Africa have been contained during the COVID pandemic while the world's attention was elsewhere, and outbreaks in Europe and the United States are a concern, Africa's top public health agency said on Thursday.
  Reuters Health Information, May 19, 2022
• Montreal Health Officials Investigate 17 Cases of Suspected Monkeypox Montreal public health officials said on Thursday they are investigating 17 suspected cases of monkeypox virus infections, adding to the growing number of cases of the rare virus reported globally.
  Reuters Health Information, May 19, 2022
• Mental Health of Most Kids With Autism Declined in Pandemic Researchers identified parents' mental health difficulties, loss of academic and health services, and material deprivation as risk factors for impaired mental health among children with autism.
  Medscape Medical News, May 20, 2022
• H pylori May Undermine Immunotherapy Response in Gastric Cancer H pylori infection was associated with shorter progression-free and overall survival. The study was published as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed.
  First Look, May 20, 2022
• US CDC Says COVID Vaccine-Related Myocarditis Much Lower for Children Than Teens The CDC on Thursday said rates of reported heart inflammation linked to the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine have been much lower in 5- to 11-year-old boys than in adolescents and young men, and were only slightly elevated above normal.
  Reuters Health Information, May 19, 2022
• Desktop 'Air Curtains' May Deflect Virus Particles When people cannot maintain a safe distance to avoid the spread of COVID-19, a newly designed desktop 'air curtain' can block aerosols in exhaled air, researchers found.
  Reuters Health Information, May 19, 2022
• EU Health Regulator Backs Using AstraZeneca COVID Shot as Booster The European health regulator on Thursday endorsed the use of AstraZeneca's COVID vaccine, Vaxzevria, as a booster.
  Reuters Health Information, May 19, 2022
• CDC Signs Off on COVID Boosters in Children Ages 5-11 An advisory panel also called for stepped-up efforts to make sure children get their initial vaccines.
  Medscape Medical News, May 19, 2022
• RSV Kills 100,000 Kids Under Age 5 a Year Worldwide A new study is the first to filter RSV deaths into narrow age brackets. Researchers found that nearly half — 45,000 deaths — were in infants under 6 months old.
  Medscape Medical News, May 19, 2022
• Number of US Child Hepatitis Cases Rises to 180 The cases come from 36 states and territories over the last 7 months.
  WebMD Health News, May 19, 2022
• ATS 2022 COVID Burnout? Turn Off Your Mind, Relax, and Float Downstream A randomized trial showed that transcendental meditation can relieve burnout-related stress and emotional exhaustion.
  Medscape Medical News, May 19, 2022
• US to Study Whether Longer Paxlovid Course Needed to Combat Reinfections The National Institutes of Health is in talks with Pfizer about studying whether a longer course of the drugmaker's COVID-19 antiviral treatment Paxlovid is needed to prevent infection recurrence, top US infectious diseases expert Dr Anthony Fauci said on Wednesday.
  Reuters Health Information, May 18, 2022
• In Patients With CBD Stones, Cholecystectomy Wound Infection Rates Similar With Broad- vs Narrow-Spectrum Antibiotics In patients with common bile duct stones undergoing same-admission cholecystectomy, surgical site infection rates are low and similar with broad- and narrow-spectrum antibiotics, observational data suggest.
  Reuters Health Information, May 18, 2022
• Case of Monkeypox Confirmed in Massachusetts The man has been hospitalized since May 12, and the diagnosis took 6 days to make because the disease is so rare.
  WebMD Health News, May 19, 2022
• Rabies: CDC Updates PrEP Vaccination Recommendations In trying to simplify recommendations and make rabies immunization less expensive, the CDC designated five risk levels with different advice based on the level of risk.
  Medscape Medical News, May 19, 2022
• COVID Is Rising in the Americas, Virus 'Not Going Away Anytime Soon': PAHO COVID-19 is on the rise again in the Americas as many countries have abandoned measures like masking and social distancing and many lag in vaccination rates, the Pan American Health Organization said on Wednesday.
  Reuters Health Information, May 18, 2022