Category: Emerging Infectious Diseases
Senegal reports mpox case, patient in isolation
Reuters Senegal authorities said they had detected a case of mpox in a foreign man who arrived in the West African country last week. The health ministry said it was the first case it had detected this year. It was not immediately clear how many cases, if any, had been reported there before January. “The […]
Aug 27, 2025
Mount Sinai Breakthrough: Potent Antibodies Open Path to Mpox Therapies
Mt Sinai A team from the Microbiology Department at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has discovered three powerful monoclonal antibodies from a person who had previously been infected with mpox (formerly known as monkeypox). These antibodies, which target the viral protein A35, blocked viral spread in laboratory in vitro tests and, most […]
Aug 27, 2025
Cambodia records more avian flu cases in poultry, people
Watt Poultry Since the start of August, the Cambodian medical authority has confirmed three further infections with influenza A(H5N1) virus. This brings the nation’s total so far this year to 15, according to the latest update on the health situation in the Western Pacific Region from the World Health Organization (WHO; as of August 15). The most recent cases […]
Aug 27, 2025
Seventy U.S. Bird Flu Cases Underscore How Much We Still Don’t Know
Forbes When a highly pathogenic avian influenza virus jumped into American dairy cows in the spring of 2024, scientists worried about the next step: spillover into humans. Sure enough, that is precisely what happened. Between March 2024 and May 2025, seventy human H5N1 infections were confirmed in the United States. Now, a new study in Nature Medicine, led […]
Aug 27, 2025
Bird flu hits three poultry farms in southern Bulgaria
The Poultry Site Bulgaria reported outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza on three farms in the southern part of the country, Reuters reported, citing the World Organisation for Animal Health on Monday, as Europe faces a seasonal upturn in the deadly disease. The H5N1 virus was detected on three farms with a total flock of 28,000 birds […]
Aug 27, 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 27, 2025
What We’ve Learned from the Texas Measles Outbreak
Time Texas health officials on Aug. 18 declared the end of a measles outbreak that had sickened more than 760 people across the state and killed two children. Doctors and public-health officials involved in the outbreak, most of whom had previously never encountered a measles patient, are now taking stock of what they’ve learned about the virus […]
Aug 27, 2025
As Measles Exploded, Officials in Texas Looked to CDC Scientists. Under Trump, No One Answered.
KFF As measles surged in Texas early this year, the Trump administration’s actions sowed fear and confusion among CDC scientists that kept them from performing the agency’s most critical function — emergency response — when it mattered most, an investigation from KFF Health News shows. The outbreak soon became the worst the United States has […]
Aug 27, 2025
What to Know About Plague After a New Case in California
NYT It is not just a scourge of the Middle Ages. Plague still exists, though it is rare. Here’s what to look for and how to protect yourself. Health officials in the Sierra Nevada region of California announced this week that a local resident tested positive for plague, an extremely rare bacterial infection usually transmitted […]
Aug 27, 2025
The CDC quietly scaled back a surveillance program for foodborne illnesses
NBC As of July 1, a critical surveillance program is monitoring for only two pathogens instead of the usual eight. A federal-state partnership that monitors for foodborne illnesses quietly scaled back its operations nearly two months ago. As of July 1, the Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network (FoodNet) program has reduced surveillance to just two pathogens: salmonella […]
Aug 27, 2025