The number of brain abscesses in children rose sharply last winter, along with the number of respiratory infections, the CDC said this week.
June 2, 2023 – The number of brain abscesses in children rose sharply last winter, along with the number of respiratory infections, theWhile stressing that brain abscesses in children are still rare, the CDC said a study of hospital data “showed a higher-than-expected number of pediatric intracranial infections beginning in August 2021, with a large peak during winter 2022 [to] 2023.
Between 2016 and 2019, before the pandemic, a monthly median of 34 brain abscess cases was reported, with 61 being the maximum for a single month. The number of cases fell during the pandemic as people social-distanced, the CDC said. “That would be consistent with seeing secondary bacterial infections a few weeks or months after the viral spread,” Sunil Sood, MD, a pediatric infectious disease expert at Northwell Health’s Cohen Children’s Medical Center,
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