Infectious Diseases/Vaccines

WHO advisory group advises moving away from including the original virus strain in future formulations of COVID-19 vaccines.

Some important takeaways for physicians from a particular case during Alberta's recent pertussis outbreak.

Early findings from the National Institutes of Health’s study highlight a dozen symptoms that most distinguish long COVID.

Focus on the neurologic complications of long-COVID, including headaches, neuropathies pain, sleep disturbances, muscular pain/weakness and tremors and cranial nerve conditions.

Indeed, research has linked their use to greater rates of certain infections.

RSV fills hospitals with wheezing babies each fall and winter, and the virus struck earlier than usual and especially hard in the U.S. this past year.

Last July, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared mpox, also known as monkeypox, to be an “extraordinary” situation that qualified as a global crisis.

Access to the new monoclonal antibody for prophylactic treatment will probably be tightly controlled, but parents may ask for it after an early RSV season last year.