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A pair of new studies describe COVID-19–related parental loss and occupational death rates, with a global analysis finding that children were more likely to be orphaned if they live in the poorest countries with high rates of noncommunicable diseases, and the other showing that essential workers in California had higher rates of coronavirus deaths and excess deaths than those with less workplace exposure.

Question  Do community-acquired SARS-CoV-2 infections differ in adults and children aged 0 to 4 years with respect to incidence, symptoms, and detected viral load?

This experiment was unveiled at yesterday’s commemoration of International Dengue Day.

Across the United States a handful of college campuses, as well as high schools and middle schools, are dealing with monkeypox cases identified in students and staff.

Vaccinated people who were infected by the first omicron subvariants have four times greater protection than vaccinated people who were not infected. These results are part of a study that will be published today in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The Covid-19 pandemic has seen three fundamental infection prevention and control (IPC) failures: an erroneous assumption of the mode of transmission; a failure to recommend respiratory protection equipment (RPE) for healthcare workers (HCWs) caring for people with Covid-19; and the mistaken assertion of equivalent efficacy between RPE and fluid resistant surgical face masks (FRSMs).

Over recent weeks, highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) virus appears to be resurging in Europe’s poultry.

In a group of nonhospitalized children 0 to 16 years old, SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibody levels peaked at about 84% 1 to 3 months after they tested positive for COVID-19 but remain high for more than a year, finds a single-center study published yesterday in JAMA Pediatrics.

This study was conducted to determine the exposure and health risk to cooking fumes of a total of 88 volunteer kitchen staff aged between 18 and 65 years working in five different kitchens in Ankara.

Scientists at the Francis Crick Institute, UCL and the University of Edinburgh have uncovered how a build-up of harmful protein starts to happen within neurons in Parkinson's disease, ultimately causing nerve cell death. By looking at how, where and why this build-up happens, the work provides unique insight into a key biological process driving Parkinson's.