Welcome to our selected article summaries from some great

public health journals including the April 2024 issue of the CDC's Emerging

Infectious Diseases Journal, March Eurosurveillance, and other leading journals.

From the April issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases,

we will cover:

• A report on deaths associated with pediatric hepatitis of unknown etiology in the USA, https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/30/4/23-1140_article
• An article on concurrent outbreaks of hepatitis A, invasive meningococcal disease, and mpox in Florida, https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/30/4/23-1392_article
• The global threat due to antimicrobial resistance of Salmonella Infantis associated with poultry https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/30/4/23-1031_article
• A study on bus riding as an amplification mechanism for SARS-CoV-2 transmission in Germany, https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/30/4/23-1299_article
• Findings on a Chlamydia pneumoniae upsurge at a tertiary hospital in Lausanne, Switzerland, https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/30/4/23-1610_article
• A commentary titled "Ten Years of High-Consequence Pathogens— discussing challenges in dealing with pathogens like ebola viruses, henipavirus and monkeypox virus over the past decade. https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/30/4/24-0160_article

Additionally, the MMWR examines the detection of measles vaccine virus in children with rash illness, https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/73/wr/pdfs/mm7312a3-H.pdf

from Eurosurveillance,

a report on the increase in invasive Streptococcus pyogenes UKM1 infections linking-Iceland and Scotland,

Briefs

Then a series of brief reports, including vaccine adverse events reporting associated with political inclination, effectiveness of updated COVID-19 vaccines among immunocompromised adults, cephtriaxone resistant gonorrhea in China, atypical age distribution and severity in children with RSV infections during the COVID-19 pandemic, and a systematic review on the potential for person-to-person transmission of Henipaviruses. Plus some late breakers from Promed including the H5N1 outbreak among dairy cattle in the USA.

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Briefs –

Reports of COVID-19 Vaccine Adverse Events in

Predominantly Republican vs Democratic States

A cross-sectional study found that the more states were

inclined to vote Republican, the more likely their vaccine recipients or their

clinicians reported COVID-19 vaccine AEs. All AEs were increased but severe

adverse event rates were reported at an odds ratio 1.2 for a 10% increase in...