Multiple Sclerosis and COVID-19: An Overview on Risk, Severity, and Association With Disease Modifying Therapies by Mary Hollist, Abraham Hollist, Katherine Au, Colton Betts, Maha Kirmani, Maaida Kirmani, Benjamin Armour, Mercy C Udeh, Batool F Kirmani

“…Advancements in management, including vaccinations, antiviral therapy, and targeted prophylaxis, have led to a decline in the incidence and severity of COVID-19. …”
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Analysis and Optimal Control Intervention Strategies of a Waterborne Disease Model: A Realistic Case Study by Obiora Cornelius Collins, Kevin Jan Duffy

“…The model is extended by introducing control intervention strategies such as vaccination, treatment, and water purification. Mathematical analyses of the control model are used to determine the possible benefits of these control intervention strategies. …”
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Best Management Practices for Equines in Natural Disasters by Kelsey M. Irvine, Brandi K. Phillips

“…This publication discusses disaster-specific considerations, making a plan, water and feed, documentation, fence and pasture preparations, animal identification, vaccinations, insurance, what to expect at agricultural inspection station stops, and more. …”
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Dog demography and ecology with reference to rabies in the Amhara region, Ethiopia by Liuel Yizengaw Adnie, Wudu Temesgen Jemberu, Adane Bahiru Woreta, Adugna Berju, Araya Mengistu, Zeleke Tesema Wondie, Wassie Molla, Sefinew Alemu Mekonnen

“…Only 57 % of the dogs were confined, and 16 % of them were vaccinated. Ninety-one percent of the dog owners did not practice neutering and spaying for dog population control. …”
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Developing a clinical prediction model to modify empirical antibiotics for non-typhoidal Salmonella bloodstream infection in children under-five in the Democratic Republic of Congo by Bieke Tack, Daniel Vita, Jules Mbuyamba, Emmanuel Ntangu, Hornela Vuvu, Immaculée Kahindo, Japhet Ngina, Aimée Luyindula, Naomie Nama, Tito Mputu, Justin Im, Hyonjin Jeon, Florian Marks, Jaan Toelen, Octavie Lunguya, Jan Jacobs, Ben Van Calster

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Effect of nirmatrelvir/ritonavir (Paxlovid) on hospitalization among adults with COVID-19: An electronic health record-based target trial emulation from N3C. by Abhishek Bhatia, Alexander J Preiss, Xuya Xiao, M Daniel Brannock, G Caleb Alexander, Robert F Chew, Hannah Davis, Megan Fitzgerald, Elaine Hill, Elizabeth P Kelly, Hemalkumar B Mehta, Charisse Madlock-Brown, Kenneth J Wilkins, Christopher G Chute, Melissa Haendel, Richard Moffitt, Emily R Pfaff, N3C Consortium

“…We also conducted stratified analyses by vaccination status and age group. Absolute risk reduction for hospitalization was similar among patients that were vaccinated and unvaccinate, but was much greater among patients aged 65+ years than among younger patients. …”
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Spatial transcriptomics reveals unique metabolic profile and key oncogenic regulators of cervical squamous cell carcinoma by Limin Zhou, Jiejie Liu, Peipei Yao, Xing Liu, Fei Chen, Yu Chen, Li Zhou, Chao Shen, You Zhou, Xin Du, Junbo Hu

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Kawasaki Disease Complicated by Salmonella oranienburg Coinfection by Zachary Barbara, Savannah P. Ellenwood, Emily D. Loe, Joon Choi, Kathleen Ryan, Nancy Joseph

“…We present a 12-month-old vaccinated male with Kawasaki disease in the setting of Salmonella bacteremia. …”
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The Behavior of an SVIR Epidemic Model with Stochastic Perturbation by Yanan Zhao, Daqing Jiang

“…We discuss a stochastic SIR epidemic model with vaccination. We investigate the asymptotic behavior according to the perturbation and the reproduction number R0. …”
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MEASLES WITH THE COMPLICATION OF NON-OBSTRUCTIVE HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; CASE REPORT by Ramna Shafique Rafique, Saleha Haider, Maria Kanwal, Saba Safdar, Tayyaba Anwar, Zain Yousaf Ally

“…It is best prevented through vaccination. Complications that can be seen in measles are otitis media, diarrhea, pneumonia, encephalitis, and myocarditis, and a long-term complication is subacute sclerosing panencephalitis. …”
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EPIZOOTIC SITUATION ON INFECTIOUS AVIAN DISEASES BASED ON ANALYSIS OF DATA FROM VETERINARY REPORTS by A. N. Spiridonov, O. N. Petrova, V. N. Irza, A. K. Karaulov, V. V. Nikoforovs

“…Based on the data analysis for avian infectious diseases, it is concluded that vaccine prophylaxis is just one of the tools for control of infectious diseases, but it does not guarantee the virus will stop circulating in the population of susceptible birds or the disease will be eradicated. …”
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Post-COVID-19 patients’ clinical-epidemiological characteristics in Baracoa, Guantánamo by Yirleidy Rodríguez Labañino, Yodanky Ochoa Rodríguez, Alexander Durán Flores, Denny Matos Laffita, Oneidis Durán Flores

“…COVID-19, in the medium term, had greater implications in the respiratory, nervous and osteomyoarticular systems. Vaccination campaigns help prevent serious symptoms of the virus and counteract complications.…”
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Risk and Prevention of Meningococcal Disease among Education Workers: A Review by Philippe De Wals, Pierre Deshaies, Gaston De Serres, Bernard Duval, Lise Goulet, Bernard Pouliot, Sylvie Ricard, Maurice Poulin

“…Immunization of education workers at the beginning of their employment, using serogroup C glycoconjugate vaccine or a combined A, C, W-135, and Y conjugate vaccine (still under development), could reduce IMD risk, but the cost effectiveness of this measure should be evaluated. …”
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EVALUATION OF POPULATION-LEVEL IMMUNITY TO SARS-COV-2 ACROSS BULGARIA (END OF 2023) by Kim Ngoc, Iva Trifonova, Teodora Gladnishka, Elitsa Panayotova, Evgenia Taseva, Vladislava Ivanova, Eleonora Kutevа, Iva Vladimirova, Iva Christova

“… Background: The COVID-19 pandemic in Bulgaria was characterized by a high mortality rate and vaccination efforts yielded suboptimal results. Understanding population immunity is important as new SARS-CoV-2 variants continue to emerge. …”
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Therapeutic Endoscopic Ultrasonography: Intratumoral Injection for Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma by Lawrence A. Shirley, Laura K. Aguilar, Estuardo Aguilar-Cordova, Mark Bloomston, Jon P. Walker

“…We then describe our technique in detail, including our experience injecting the AdV-tk adenoviral vector to create an in situ vaccine effect.…”
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Caecal Perforation from Primary Intestinal Tuberculosis in Pregnancy by Soe Lwin, Nina Lau Lee Jing, Haris Suharjono, Mardiana binti Kipli, Tin Moe Nwe, Myat San Yi, Lucas Luk Tien Wee

“…The incidence of tuberculosis (TB) is rising worldwide, despite the efficacy of the BCG vaccination. Populations at greatest risk of contracting TB are migrant communities, as well as immunocompromised individuals. …”
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A Case of Fulminant Meningococcemia: It Is All in the Complement by Kellie L. Hawkins, Mariah Hoffman, Sonia Okuyama, Sarah E. Rowan

“…As this new biologic agent becomes more widely prescribed, providers should be aware of the increased risk of meningococcemia. In addition to vaccination, providers may consider the use of oral penicillin for antibiotic prophylaxis against Neisseria meningitidis in these cases of functional complement deficiency.…”
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Different types of control over epidemic processes of pasteurellosis and haemorrhagic septicemia by S. I. Dzhupina

“…Correspondingly, the control over pasteurellosis epidemic process is realized by satisfaction of animal needs by environmental conditions (dry bedding, satisfactory air exchange, time in the open air, etc.) and the control over haemorrhagic cepticemia epidemic process is realized by vaccination of production animals according to epizooto-logical showings and use of repellents and insecticides.…”
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Modeling and analyzing the transmission dynamics of visceral leishmaniasis by Lan Zou, Jing Chen, Shigui Ruan

“…The basic reproduction number and sensitivity analysis show that the control of dog-sandfly transmission is more important for the elimination of the disease. Vaccination of susceptible dogs, treatment of infective dogs, as well as control of vertical transmission in dogs are effective prevention and control measures for visceral leishmaniasis.…”
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Modified vaccinia virus Ankara triggers type I IFN production in murine conventional dendritic cells via a cGAS/STING-mediated cytosolic DNA-sensing pathway. by Peihong Dai, Weiyi Wang, Hua Cao, Francesca Avogadri, Lianpan Dai, Ingo Drexler, Johanna A Joyce, Xiao-Dong Li, Zhijian Chen, Taha Merghoub, Stewart Shuman, Liang Deng

“…Modified vaccinia virus Ankara (MVA) is an attenuated poxvirus that has been engineered as a vaccine against infectious agents and cancers. Our goal is to understand how MVA modulates innate immunity in dendritic cells (DCs), which can provide insights to vaccine design. …”
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