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Pediatric Invasive Meningococcal Disease, Auckland, New Zealand (Aotearoa), 2004-2020
Emerg Infect Dis. 2023 Apr;29(4):686-695. doi: 10.3201/eid2904.221397.ABSTRACTNew Zealand (Aotearoa) experienced a Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B epidemic during 1991-2006, and incidence remains twice that of other high-income countries. We reviewed clinical, laboratory, and immunization data for children <15 years of age with laboratory-confirmed invasive meningococcal disease in Auckland, New Zealand, during January 1, 2004-December 31, 2020. Of 319 cases in 318 children, 4.1% died, and 23.6% with follow-up data experienced sequelae. Children of Māori and Pacific ethnicity and those living in the most deprived ar...
Source: Emerging Infectious Diseases - March 23, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Cameron Burton Emma Best Matthew Broom Helen Heffernan Simon Briggs Rachel Webb Source Type: research
Fight Aging! Newsletter, February 13th 2023
This study investigated whether taller Polish adults live longer than their shorter counterparts. Data on declared height were available from 848,860 individuals who died in the years 2004-2008 in Poland. To allow for the cohort effect, the Z-values were generated. Separately for both sexes, Pearson's r coefficients of correlation were calculated. Subsequently, one way ANOVA was performed.
The correlation between adult height and longevity was negative and statistically significant in both men and women. After eliminating the effects of secular trends in height, the correlation was very weak (r = -0.0044 in men and ...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 12, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Influenza Vaccination and Risk of Ischemic Stroke: A Population-Based Case-Control Study
DISCUSSION: Results are compatible with a moderate protective effect of influenza vaccine on IS appearing early after vaccination. The finding that a reduced risk was also observed in pre-epidemic periods suggests that either the "protection" is not totally linked to prevention of influenza infection, or it may be partly explained by unmeasured confounding factors.PMID:36240087 | DOI:10.1212/WNL.0000000000201123
Source: Cancer Control - October 14, 2022 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Sara Rodr íguez-Martín Diana Barreira-Hern ández Miguel Gil Alberto Garc ía-Lledó Laura Izquierdo-Esteban Francisco Jose De Abajo Source Type: research
The Virus Hunters Trying to Prevent the Next Pandemic
Nobody saw SARS-CoV-2 coming. In the early days of the pandemic, researchers were scrambling to collect samples from people who had mysteriously developed fevers, coughs, and breathing problems. Pretty soon, they realized that the disease-causing culprit was a new virus humans hadn’t seen before.
And the world, lacking a coordinated global response, was unprepared. Some countries acted quickly to develop tests for the novel coronavirus, while others with fewer resources were left behind. With a virus oblivious to national borders, and with travel between countries and continents more common than it had been in previo...
Source: TIME: Health - August 1, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park and Video by Andrew D. Johnson Tags: Uncategorized Disease Frontiers of Medicine 2022 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
News Fatigue, Anti-Vax and Wars
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
Michel de MontaigneBy Jan LundiusSTOCKHOLM, Jul 13 2022 (IPS) During the beginning of the pandemic, people wanted to learn more about COVID-19. Enclosed in their homes they watched with fear and fascination how the pandemic swept over the world, while comparing ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - July 13, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Jan Lundius Tags: Armed Conflicts COVID-19 Global Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news
Reactive vaccination as control strategy for an outbreak of invasive meningococcal disease caused by < em > Neisseria meningitidis < /em > C:P1.5-1,10-8:F3-6:ST-11(cc11), Bergamo province, Italy, December 2019 to January 2020
This report is focused on the microbiological and molecular analysis of meningococcal isolates with the aim to reconstruct the chain of transmission. It further presents the vaccination strategy adopted to control the outbreak. The phylogenetic evaluation demonstrated the close genetic proximity between the strain involved in this outbreak and a strain responsible for a larger epidemic that had occurred in 2015 and 2016 in the Tuscany Region. The rapid identification and characterisation of IMD cases and an extensive vaccination campaign contributed to the successful control of this outbreak caused by a hyperinvasive menin...
Source: Euro Surveill - June 17, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Cecilia Fazio Laura Daprai Arianna Neri Marcello Tirani Paola Vacca Milena Arghittu Luigina Ambrosio Danilo Cereda Maria Gramegna Annapina Palmieri Anna Carannante Maria Rosa Bertoli Lucia Crottogini Giorgio Gennati Eugenia Quinz Livia Trezzi Andrea Ciamm Source Type: research
The epidemiology, clinical characteristics, and macrolide susceptibility of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia in children in Southern Taiwan, 2019-2020
CONCLUSION: Early diagnosis and determination of MRMP are needed for effective management of MP infection.PMID:34688576 | DOI:10.1016/j.jmii.2021.09.010
Source: Journal of Microbiology, Immunology, and Infection - October 24, 2021 Category: Microbiology Authors: Cheng-Yen Kuo Wei-Chun Tsai Hui-Feng Lee Tzong-Shiann Ho Li-Min Huang Ching-Fen Shen Ching-Chuan Liu Taiwan Pediatric Infectious Disease Alliance (TPIDA) Source Type: research
