Category: Emerging Infectious Diseases
Mexico confirms country’s first human death from H5N1 bird flu
CBS News A 3-year-old girl in western Mexico has died after contracting bird flu in the country’s first confirmed human case of the virus, Mexican health authorities said Tuesday. Mexico’s Health Ministry said in a statement that the girl died at 1:35 a.m. local time due to respiratory complications resulting from the infection. Type A H5N1 influenza […]
Apr 8, 2025
New ‘surprising’ case of mpox variant clade lb detected in England
Reuters 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 8, 2025
Hantavirus that killed Gene Hackman’s wife linked to 3 deaths in California town
NBC News The latest death was the third from hantavirus in Mammoth Lakes since early February, health officials there said. Public health officials in California confirmed that three people in the town of Mammoth Lakes have died from hantavirus, which killed actor Gene Hackman’s wife in February. In a statement Thursday, health officials in Mono County […]
Apr 8, 2025
Invasive strep infections have more than doubled in the U.S., CDC study finds
NBC News The invasive form of strep can lead to flesh-eating disease or organ failure. Almost 2,000 people died from 2013 to 2022. Severe, possibly life-threatening strep infections are rising in the United States. The number of invasive group A strep infections more than doubled from 2013 to 2022, according to a study from the […]
Apr 8, 2025
First case of measles reported in Indiana
WSBT News The first case of measles has been confirmed in Indiana. According to the Indiana Department of Health, the person infected is an unvaccinated child in Allen County. Public health officials are working on figuring out if this has led to any other cases in the area. So far, the risk to the general […]
Apr 8, 2025
Ontario’s measles outbreak is so big, even New York health officials are taking notice
CBC Ontario’s measles outbreak has become so big that public health officials in New York state have included the province in a travel advisory that urges residents to get vaccinated before visiting. “Measles is only a car ride away!” reads the April 2nd measles travel advisory for all New Yorkers from the New York State […]
Apr 8, 2025
Third measles case in 2025 in Colorado confirmed
CBS News A third case of measles in Colorado this year has been confirmed by state health officials. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment says an adult in southwestern Colorado has tested positive. The adult lives in Archuleta County, and it hasn’t been confirmed if the person is vaccinated or not. Evidence is showing it’s […]
Apr 8, 2025
Texas measles outbreak tops 500 cases, including multiple at a day care in Lubbock
AP A day care facility in a Texas county that’s part of the measles outbreak has multiple cases, including children too young to be fully vaccinated, public health officials say. West Texas is in the middle of a still-growing measles outbreak with 505 cases reported on Tuesday. The state expanded the number of counties in the outbreak area this week […]
Apr 8, 2025
What Would You Do If an Ebola Patient Checked Into Your Hospital?
Medical News Today The cavalry isn’t coming, but the infectious diseases are. On a November morning in 2018, a man checked into a crowded emergency department (ED) in California reporting fever and body aches. The clerk who checked him in quickly deduced that he had arrived 2 days prior from the Democratic Republic of Congo […]
Apr 2, 2025
The hunt for the next pandemic is on our shores
ABC News Australia Along the untamed coast of southern Victoria, where thyme rice-flower and coast daisy hustle for space and mud flats melt into aqua ocean, a team of birdwatchers is searching for an invisible enemy. For almost 45 years, Rosalind Jessop has tracked the health of communities of wild birds, gathering data on flock […]
Apr 2, 2025