As COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations begin to increase again in the U.S., public health officials are monitoring several new Omicron subvariants that are contributing to the case numbers. In some parts of the U.S., a spinoff of the BA.2 subvariant called BA.2.12.1 is the main culprit. In other countries, Omicron […]
Durante el European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) de 2022, en Lisboa, Portugal, un grupo de investigadores españoles presentó el interesante caso de una mujer de 31 años que fue positiva a ómicron a solo 20 días de ser positiva a delta. Este tiempo de diferencia entre infecciones es el más corto […]
New surveillance data from the Vaccine Safety Datalink confirm a small but statistically significant increased risk for Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) in the 3 weeks after receipt of the Janssen/Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine. The Janssen vaccine (Ad26.COV2.S) is a replication-incompetent adenoviral vector vaccine. The data show no increased risk of […]
Arecent study found that older adults with Alzheimer disease and related dementias (ADRD) had a greater risk of dying during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic than those without dementia, even in areas where community infection was low. The authors attributed the higher excess mortality among patients with ADRD to sudden […]
Ginebra.- En 2020 y 2021 hubo en México un exceso de mortalidad ligado al Covid de 626 mil personas, lo que incluye personas que fallecieron directamente por la enfermedad, otros problemas médicos e interrupciones de la atención médica derivados de la pandemia, indicó hoy la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) La cifra casi […]
Highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses (HPAIv) have recently been detected on the East coast of Canada (December 2021) and the United States (January 2022) and have been found in both wild birds and poultry (1). This comes after the same strain (known as H5N1) swept through Asia, Africa, and Europe […]
Tuberculosis cases are increasing in Washington, which has put public health officials on “heightened alert,” according to a recent announcement from the Washington State Department of Health. Widespread disruptions in health care and missed tuberculosis diagnoses during the COVID-19 pandemic have likely added to the increase – both locally and globally. “It’s been […]
El 15 de abril de 2022, la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) publicó un alerta sobre casos de hepatitis aguda grave de causa desconocida en niños en el Reino Unido. Desde entonces, se han notificado más casos. Hablamos con el doctor Leandro Soares Sereno, asesor para la prevención y el control […]
What are the new vaccines in the pipeline? What are the challenges to turning vaccines into vaccination? What timelines can we expect for future vaccines? Créditos: Comité científico Covid
Un año después de la hospitalización por COVID-19, solo una minoría de las personas se siente totalmente recuperada; ser mujer, tener obesidad y el haber recibido ventilación mecánica en el hospital fueron factores de riesgo para no sentirse totalmente recuperado.[1] En el nuevo estudio realizado en el Reino Unido con más de […]
