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A trio of new observational studies from Europe describes long COVID prevalence in Luxembourg, the effect of initial infection severity on risk in Sweden, and an occupational therapy program to ease symptoms in Ireland. The research was presented at the annual congress of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) in Portugal, which ended yesterday.

Though COVID-19 cases are still declining globally, they are rising again in Africa and the Americas, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in its weekly pandemic report. Meanwhile, in a closely watched vaccine development in the United States, Moderna today submitted its application for emergency use of its COVID-19 vaccine in children ages 6 months to 6 years old.

Available evidence demonstrates that direct patient contact and contact with infectious body fluids are the primary modes for Ebola virus transmission, but this is based on a limited number of studies.

Air pollution is an important environmental factor associated with health impacts in Europe and considerable resources are used to reduce exposure to air pollution through emission reductions.

Reuters) - The first known human case of H5 bird flu in the United States has appeared in a person in Colorado, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday.

In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers have found that antibiotic use in young children is associated with lower vaccine-induced antibody responses to several childhood vaccines.

New COVID-19 seroprevalence data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that the Omicron surge infected a huge swath of Americans, with overall seroprevalence rising from 33.5% in December of 2021 to 57.7% in February 2022. 

Mount Sinai researchers have discovered a previously unknown mechanism in which not-yet-malignant cells from early breast cancer tumors travel to other organs and, eventually, "turn on" and become metastatic breast cancer.

Two thirds of family members restricted from visiting their loved ones admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) for COVID-19 had significant symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 3 months later, with the greatest severity in those of Hispanic ethnicity, female sex, and previous use of a psychiatric drug, according to a study published yesterday in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Moulds are responsible for diseases in humans through the three pathogenetic mechanisms of infection, allergy, and toxicity.