Several healthcare acquired infections (HAIs), such as central line-associated bloodstream infections and ventilator events, showed increased prevalence in 2021, according to new data released by the ...

New HIV infections in the U.S. dropped by 12 percent between 2017 and 2021, according to data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday. Still, despite that progress, ...

Healthcare-associated infections (HAI) have remained above pre-COVID levels in acute care settings, according to new federal data. The 2021 National and State HAI Progress Report, published online Nov ...

“Achieving over 600 days without a hospital acquired infection is no small task,” Alison Gwynne, infection preventionist at the hospital, said in an Aug. 23 news release. “It takes the whole team, ...

A target trial emulation study found that in an elderly population of U.S. veterans with high comorbidity burden, mRNA vaccine efficacy at preventing infection with COVID-19 was substantially lower ...

More than 2.5 million cases of sexually transmitted infections were reported in 2021, jumping by 7% in one year, according to new data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “The US ...

The incidence of several common healthcare-associated infections reported by U.S. hospitals increased in 2021, new CDC data shows. Clostridioides difficile infections fell 3 percent in 2021, while ...

Hospital-developed COVID-19 cases represent about 1.8% of COVID-19 hospitalizations and were potentially on the decline by the tail end of the pandemic’s delta wave, according to a patient data ...

Researchers have discovered a high prevalence of COVID-19 co-infections in central Missouri during the 2021-2022 flu season, with a monthly co-infection rate as high as 48 percent among individuals ...

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Since the infection was first detected in humans in 1998, there have been sporadic new outbreaks across the so-called Nipah ...