Managing Severe COVID-19 in the Post-Pandemic Era
Image credit: Engin Akyurt, Unsplash Although many clinicians may still be processing the collective trauma of COVID-19 , it has been nearly five years since the start of the pandemic.1 According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there have been approximately 777 million cumulative cases of COVID-19 with over 7 million deaths attributed to the […]
Novavax Reports Immune Responses and Safety in Phase 3 Trial of COVID-19-Influenza Combination Vaccine
Novavax logo. Image credits: Novavax Novavax Inc has announced initial results from its Phase 3 clinical trial evaluating its COVID-19-influenza combination vaccine (CIC) and a stand-alone trivalent influenza vaccine candidate (tNIV) in older adults. The trial enrolled approximately 2,000 participants aged 65 and older and showed that both vaccine candidates generated neutralizing antibody responses comparable […]
HHS Secretary RFK Jr Replaces CDC Vaccine Advisory Panel With New Appointees
HHS logo Image credits: HHS Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F Kennedy (RFK) Jr has appointed eight new members to the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), two days after removing all 17 previous members. The newly named appointees have drawn scrutiny for past affiliations with vaccine-skeptical movements and controversial views on […]
CDC Estimates True Valley Fever Burden May Be Up to 18 Times Higher Than Reported
Mitsuru Toda, PhD Image credits: LinkedIn A new CDC-led analysis estimates that the true annual burden of symptomatic coccidioidomycosis in the United States may be 10 to 18 times higher than reported through national surveillance systems. In 2019, researchers estimated approximately 273,000 symptomatic cases of the fungal infection, compared with the substantially lower number captured […]
Scientists warn of bat virus just one mutation from infecting humans
A group of bat viruses closely related to the deadly Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) could be one small mutation away from being capable of spilling over into human populations and potentially causing the next pandemic. A recent study published in the journal Nature Communicationsexamined an understudied group of coronaviruses known as merbecoviruses — […]
Early Release – Peromyscus spp. Deer Mice as Rodent Model of Acute Leptospirosis – Volume 31, Number 7—July 2025 – Emerging Infectious Diseases journal
Disclaimer: Early release articles are not considered as final versions. Any changes will be reflected in the online version in the month the article is officially released. Author affiliation: National Animal Disease Center, US Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service, Ames, Iowa, USA (E.J. Putz, P. Boggiatto, M.V. Palmer, L.G.V. Fernandes, B.W. Tibbs-Cortes, J.A. […]
Cancer Incidence and Trends in US Adults With HIV
This cohort study estimates age-specific cancer incidence rates among people with HIV in the US using a large sample from population-based data registries. Source link
