Author: Claudinne Miller
How a Réunion Island outbreak sparked France’s record chikungunya season
Medical News In a recent rapid communication in the journal Eurosurveillance, researchers from France’s public health agency detail the current scenario of the chikungunya disease within the country. Specifically, the aftermath of a large 2025 chikungunya outbreak on Réunion Island led to a surge of imported cases in mainland France, triggering an unusually early and widespread […]
Aug 20, 2025
A Debilitating Virus Surges Globally as Mosquitoes Move With Warming Climate
NYT Chikungunya, which can disable victims for years, is spreading rapidly, including in China, France and other places that have not seen major outbreaks before. A mosquito-borne virus that can leave infected people debilitated for years is spreading to more regions of the world, as climate change creates new habitats for the insects that carry […]
Aug 20, 2025
How flossing a mouse’s teeth could lead to a new kind of vaccine
Science Tests of a needle-free flu vaccine delivered through the gums required some creative thinking. Bioengineer Rohan Ingrole needed to floss a mouse’s teeth. The intent wasn’t to help mice get a clean bill of health at the dentist. Each bit of store-bought floss was coated with dead influenza viruses, or lab-made bits and pieces […]
Aug 20, 2025
How Tick Data is Busting Myths, Raising New Concerns of Lyme Disease
University of Guelph, Canada Encounters with ticks are no longer just a problem for someone trudging through the woods – they can happen right in your own backyard. That is one of the findings from ongoing research studying tick bites from the G. Magnotta Research Lab at the University of Guelph. Launched in 2022, the study is […]
Aug 20, 2025
Tick-borne Rocky Mountain spotted fever spreading in Canada
CBC Potentially deadly disease already found in Ontario and Quebec this year. Quebec has reported a case of the potentially deadly tick-borne disease Rocky Mountain spotted fever that was likely acquired in Ontario or Quebec. The disease was reported in dogs in Ontario earlier this year. Here’s what you need to know about preventing, identifying and treating the […]
Aug 20, 2025
Somalia faces diphtheria surge amid vaccine shortages and aid cuts
NBC News Before President Donald Trump cut most foreign assistance earlier this year, the United States was the leading humanitarian donor to Somalia, whose health budget is almost entirely funded by donors. Diphtheria cases and deaths have risen sharply this year in Somalia, where the response has been curtailed by vaccine shortages and U.S. aid cuts, […]
Aug 20, 2025
COVID surges nationwide with highest rates in Southwest as students return to school
LA Times COVID-19 rates in the Southwestern United States reached 12.5% — the highest in the nation — according to new data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released this week. Meanwhile, Los Angeles County recorded the highest COVID levels in its wastewater since February. The spike, thanks to the new highly […]
Aug 20, 2025
New Malaria Case Prompts Testing of Mosquitoes in New Jersey
NYT A Morris County resident may have contracted the illness locally, which would be the first known instance in decades of someone being exposed while in the state. New Jersey scientists are testing mosquitoes after a Morris County resident may have contracted malaria locally, which health officials said would be the first known instance in […]
Aug 20, 2025
A 1990 Measles Outbreak Shows How the Disease Can Roar Back
NYT To understand the virus’s re-emergence in America in 2025, some experts are looking to a past epidemic that had a high death rate in Philadelphia. Few expected a major return of measles to the United States this year, a quarter-century after it was declared eliminated here. But return it has, with more than 1,300 confirmed cases this […]
Aug 20, 2025
RFK Jr. responds to vaccine guidance that goes against CDC: ‘AAP is angry’
USA Today Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has responded to the American Academy of Pediatrics’ decision to release its own vaccine recommendations that contradict federal guidance. The AAP, a professional organization of over 65,000 board-certified pediatricians, said in June that it would publish its own vaccine schedule. The move came after Kennedy Jr. announced that the COVID-19 […]
Aug 20, 2025