Early in the pandemic, clinicians noticed that certain immunocompromised patients were experiencing persistent SARS-CoV-2 infections, some lasting weeks to months at a time. This raised concerns that ...

Are we there yet? It’s a common question and one that millions of Americans have been asking since around the end of March 2020. Are we finally done with this awful pandemic? Not yet, say scientists ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As more and more Americans doff their masks, immunocompromised individuals may be concerned about their risk levels among largely ...

People with weakened immune systems remain more likely to die if hospitalized with COVID-19 than patients with normal immune systems, a new UK study has confirmed. Previous studies have compared ...

You’ve heard of long Covid, a condition in which the acute infection subsides but troubling symptoms persist. Less well known is chronic Covid: The virus just doesn’t leave, sometimes staying in ...

Authors propose enhancing awareness of risks, close genomic surveillance and early diagnostic tests for symptomatic contacts as part of clinical management of these patients. *Please mention the ...

In a recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) published on the United States Center for Disease Control and Prevention (US-CDC) website, researchers evaluated whether severe acute ...

In the United States, noroviruses are the single most common cause of acute gastroenteritis in adults that results in a visit to the hospital emergency department, and they are second only to ...

Live-attenuated viral vaccines (LAV) have been used safely for several decades in healthy individuals to protect against diseases with great success. In immunocompromised hosts their use is usually ...

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Patients with weakened immune systems – who are at high risk from COVID-19 – say pharmacies are turning them away when they seek additional vaccine doses recommended by federal health officials.

This case series presents 4 Florida residents with pancytopenia receiving antineoplastic chemotherapy who developed illnesses likely due to flood water exposure while immunocompromised, after ...