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Category: Emerging Infectious Diseases

The US has three measles-related deaths and hundreds of cases. Here’s what to know

AP Texas surpassed 500 measles cases Tuesday, just days after a third person died from a measles-related illness. The U.S. has more than double the number of measles cases it saw in all of 2024. Texas is reporting the majority of them with 505. The cases include two young elementary school-aged children who were not vaccinated and died from measles-related […]

Apr 9, 2025

A Call for Closer Kidney Monitoring After COVID-19 Hospitalization

Physicians Weekly Patients experienced a greater annual decline in kidney function after COVID-19 infection compared with after pneumonia due to other infections, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open. Researchers found that the magnitude of accelerated kidney function decline was steepest in patients hospitalized for COVID-19. “We, therefore, propose that people who were hospitalized […]

Apr 9, 2025

Once-rare fungal diseases are killing millions in an unprepared world

Dallas Morning News An estimated 6.5 million people develop invasive fungal infections each year. When most people think of dangerous infections, they picture bacteria or viruses. But for infectious disease specialists like Peter Chin-Hong, one of the most insidious threats lurking in hospitals and clinics today is fungal. Chin-Hong’s case list is long: a healthy 29-year-old marathon […]

Apr 9, 2025

Avian flu in raw milk found to be broadly sensitive to heat

Cornell Chronicle In March 2024, when the first cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza were identified in dairy cows in Texas, Cornell researchers – led by Diego Diel, associate professor of virology in the College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM) – immediately began assessing how long the virus survived in the raw milk of infected cows. At the same […]

Apr 9, 2025

USDA to lose bird flu response employees, source says

Reuters Several U.S. Department of Agriculture employees who worked on the agency’s bird flu response will leave at the end of April, straining the federal capacity to monitor the spread of the virus, according to a source familiar with the situation. The USDA on April 1 gave employees seven days to decide whether to take financial incentives […]

Apr 9, 2025

New ‘surprising’ case of mpox variant clade lb detected in England

Retuers Britain’s health security agency said on Monday another case of the mpox variant clade lb had been detected in England in a person who had no reported travel history or link with previously confirmed cases in the country. The case was diagnosed in March and all contacts have been followed up and no further […]

Apr 9, 2025

An animal source of mpox emerges — and it’s a squirrel

Nature Researchers solve the mystery of a disease outbreak through long-term surveillance of wildlife in Africa. One of the great mysteries of the monkeypox virus has been pinpointing its ‘reservoir’ hosts — the animals that carry and spread the virus without becoming sick from it. Now, an international team of scientists suggests that it has an answer: […]

Apr 9, 2025

TB

Tuberculosis Is Back in the Spotlight. Does the U.S. Even Care?

MedPage Today This is a column about tuberculosis (TB), the world’s single, most deadly-yet-curable infection that killed one in seven Americansopens in a new tab or window as recently as the 1880s. That said, it was not until 8 decades later that patients who received long courses of treatment were reliably cured. And even though rich countries […]

Apr 9, 2025

H5N1 detections in US dairy cattle reach 1,000

CIDRAP The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) today reported two more H5N1 avian flu detections in dairy herds, one in California and the other in Nevada, raising the nation’s total to 1,000 since March 2024. California has been the hardest-hit state, and though detections have dropped sharply, sporadic H5N1 […]

Apr 9, 2025

Dozens of free measles vaccine clinics close in Texas as federal funding is cut

NBC News Many clinics had been planned at schools in the Dallas area with low vaccination rates. Steep federal funding cuts have forced public health officials in one of Texas’ most populous counties — Dallas — to cancel dozens of vaccination clinics and lay off 21 workers on the front lines of combatting the state’s growing […]

Apr 9, 2025