Emerging Diseases News

More than 2 decades of data show that exposure to tropical storm or hurricane rainfall increases the risk of acquiring waterborne diseases, demonstrating the storms’ threat to public health, researchers reported in Emerging Infectious Diseases.

Long COVID symptoms are more common in patients with inflammatory rheumatic disease vs. those without such conditions, according to data published in The Lancet Rheumatology.

Approximately 16% of children and adolescents diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2 had a persistent symptom 3 months after infection, according to the results of a systematic review of more than 15,000 patients.

People with HIV diagnosed with mpox were not at an increased risk for hospitalization unless they were immunosuppressed, according to findings presented at the International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Science.

Patients with inflammatory bowel disease infected with SARS-CoV-2 during the first and second waves of the pandemic experienced different symptoms and outcomes, consistent with those of the general population in Italy, researchers reported.

Despite being at greater risk for adverse COVID-19 outcomes, just one in four nursing home residents with COVID-19 received antiviral treatment from May 31, 2021, through the end of 2022, researchers found.

Five male infants in South Africa who were born with HIV were able to maintain undetectable viral loads for months despite low adherence to ART, according to researchers at the International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Science.

Compared with their peers, people with HIV experienced a smaller decline in mortality risk from COVID-19 during the omicron wave of the pandemic, researchers reported.

COVID-19 messenger RNA vaccination during pregnancy resulted in a robust immune response without adverse outcomes for both mothers and infants for almost 6 months after birth, according to a cohort study published in JAMA Network Open.

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