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  • Program Designed To Promote HIV Testing May Have Increased Misinformation, Study Finds

    Infectious Disease Advisor (9/26, Arini Lopez) reports that new research indicates that a “community-based program on HIV/AIDS” in Mozambique may “have inadvertently increased misinformation surrounding HIV transmission and worsened HIV-related stigma, re...
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  • CDC Says 4.4M Americans Have Received COVID-19 Boosters

    Reuters (9/23, Mishra, Erman) reported, “Updated COVID-19 boosters have gone into 4.4 million arms in the United States since a new revaccination campaign began three weeks ago, government data shows, a slower pace for the shots targeting the Omicron vari...
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  • Study Identifies Genital, Anal, And Oral Lesions As Potential Symptoms Of Monkeypox

    Healio (9/23, Burba) reported, “As monkeypox case counts continue to expand globally, a series of potentially new clinical symptoms have begun to emerge, a development that may bring gastroenterologists to the forefront of care for this evolving outbreak....
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  • Measles Outbreak In Zimbabwe Has Killed More Than 700 Children So Far

    The New York Times (9/24, Marima, Nolen) reported, “A measles outbreak has killed more than 700 children and infected thousands of others across Zimbabwe, highlighting the risks of faltering childhood immunization campaigns around the globe.” Zimbabwe’s H...
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  • Disease Outbreaks Following Flooding In Pakistan Have Killed At Least 300 People

    The AP (9/23, Ahmed) reported, “Pakistan deployed thousands more doctors and medics to battle the outbreak of disease as the death toll from the unprecedented floods that have gripped the country this summer surpassed 1,600 on Friday, officials said.” In...
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  • Moderna Seeks FDA Authorization For Omicron-Targeted COVID-19 Shot For Adolescents, Younger Kids

    Reuters (9/23, Roy) reported that Moderna “said on Friday it has requested U.S. authorization for use of its Omicron-targeting COVID vaccine in adolescents and children.” The biotech “is seeking emergency use authorization of its updated vaccine in two ag...
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  • Increased Risk Of Blood Clots Persists For Almost A Year After COVID-19 Infection, Large Study Finds

    HealthDay (9/23, Munez) reported, “An increased risk of blood clots persists for close to a year after a COVID-19 infection, a large study shows.” HealthDay added, “The health records of 48 million unvaccinated adults in the United Kingdom suggest that th...
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  • Children With IEI May Experience More Severe Cases Of COVID-19, Have Higher Mortality Rates

    Healio (9/23, Gawel) reported that children with inborn errors of immunity (IEI) “may experience more severe cases of COVID-19 and higher rates of mortality than children who do not have IEI.” This is the conclusion researchers came to after conducting a...
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  • People On PrEP Struggle To Get Insurers To Pay For Lab Charges, Medical Appointments, Experts Say

    USA Today (9/25, Alltucker) reported, “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates 1.2 million Americans can benefit from PrEP.” Insurers “are required to cover the cost of the medication, lab testing and medical appointments.” People on PrEP...
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  • Health Officials Say 4.4M Americans Received Updated COVID-19 Booster Shot

    The AP (9/23, Johnson) reports, “U.S. health officials say 4.4 million Americans have rolled up their sleeves for the updated COVID-19 booster shot.” But “health experts said it is too early to predict whether demand would match up with the 171 million do...
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  • WHO Says It’s Struggling To Track New SARS-CoV-2 Variants

    CNBC (9/22, Kimball) reports the World Health Organization warned on Thursday “that it is struggling to identify and track new Covid variants as governments roll back testing and surveillance, threatening the progress made in the fight against the virus.”...
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  • US Norovirus Cases Return To Pre-Pandemic Levels, CDC Says

    Healio (9/22, Feller) reports CDC data issued Thursday show “norovirus outbreaks have rebounded to pre-pandemic levels as COVID-19 mitigation measures have eased around the country.” The data show “there were nearly triple the outbreaks from August 2021 t...
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  • An Average Of More Than 350 Deaths Related To COVID-19 Reported Every Day In US, CDC Data Show

    ABC News (9/22, Mitropoulos) reports, “Although the daily death rates have ticked down slightly from August, updated federal data” show “that the U.S. is still losing hundreds of Americans to COVID-19 every day, and 225,000 people in the U.S. have been lo...
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  • Study Shows People Infected With COVID-19 Are At Higher Risk Of Brain, Other Neurological Disorders

    Reuters (9/22, Steenhuysen) reports, “Brain and other neurological disorders occurred in 7% more of those who had been infected with COVID compared with a similar group of veterans who had never been infected,” a study published in Nature Medicine shows....
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  • Deadly Cholera Outbreak Spreads Through Northern Syria

    The New York Times (9/22, Saad, Arraf) reports, “A deadly cholera outbreak has been spreading in northern Syria over the past two weeks in areas where millions of people displaced by the country’s long civil war are suffering from a lack of clean water an...
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  • Uganda Confirms Seven Cases Of Ebola

    The AP (9/22, Muhumuza) reports, “Uganda confirmed seven Ebola infections Thursday as authorities try to track down 43 contacts of known Ebola patients two days after authorities in the East African country announced an outbreak of the contagious disease....
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  • US Cutting Number Of COVID-19 Vaccine Doses Purchased For Global Donation Due To Drop In Demand

    Reuters (9/22, Erman) reports the US “is significantly cutting back the number of Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine doses it will buy for donation to poorer nations this year, Pfizer said on Thursday, citing diminished demand for the shots in those countri...
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  • US Government Releasing Millions Of Doses Of Bivalent COVID-19 Boosters

    The Washington Post (9/20, Diamond) reports, “The federal government is releasing millions of Moderna booster shots that were delayed by the Food and Drug Administration as a result of a safety inspection at an Indiana packaging plant, even as states repo...
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  • Patients Who Experience Adverse Event Immediately After COVID-19 Vaccination May Be Safely Revaccinated, Study Suggests

    Healio (9/20, Gawel) reports “patients who have an adverse event immediately after COVID-19 vaccination can be revaccinated if they are selected carefully and challenged in a supervised environment, according to” a “retrospective, multicenter cohort study...
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  • Varicella Zoster Virus Infection Tied To Significant Morbidity, Healthcare-Associated Costs Among Patients With HIV, Analysis Finds

    Infectious Disease Advisor (9/20, Nye) reports, “Varicella zoster virus...infection causes significant morbidity and health care-associated costs among patients with HIV infection, according to...a retrospective analysis.” The results were published in Op...
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