Category: Emerging Infectious Diseases
Health Officials Hunt for Cases Connecting Covid Shot and Harm in Pregnant Women
MSN op health officials under Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are compiling examples of harmful effects of Covid shots on pregnant women to share with the public, people familiar with the matter said, furthering the administration’s scrutiny of vaccines and a debate with GOP lawmakers over their efficacy. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary and […]
Sep 10, 2025
Are You Ready for Measles’ Wrath?
Med Page Today Going forward, expect the unexpected. Not all patients will be children. Paul Natterson, MD, was very sick — and scared. One day, the 26-year-old intern was seeing patients at a county hospital and attending a concert at the Hollywood Bowl. The next morning, he was so fatigued he could barely walk. High […]
Sep 10, 2025
Why is it so hard to find the source of a legionnaires’ outbreak?
CBC From sampling to testing, the bacteria behind the illness presents many challenges. It took months of mapping cases, dozens of locations sampled and weeks of lab sequencing to determine the likely culprit behind a recent outbreak of legionnaires’ disease in London, Ont. — one that killed four people and infected about 100 others. It’s just the latest example […]
Sep 3, 2025
An ancient disease makes yet another comeback
NPR “Action is needed, not tomorrow, but really now,” said Yap Boum of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. He’s talking about a disease that has been around for centuries — cholera — and is rearing its head again in Africa. Over the past three years, cases have more than doubled, with over […]
Sep 3, 2025
Lessons from HPAI in dairy cattle: Preparing for the next disease outbreak
Ohio Country Journal In 2017, as I was preparing for the board exam for the College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, I spent long days buried in textbooks and long evenings in small-group discussions about hypothetical disease outbreaks. These tabletop scenarios covered everything from foot-and-mouth disease to zoonotic threats, and one in particular still sticks with […]
Sep 3, 2025
Avian flu found in North Dakota, South Dakota turkeys
North Dakota Monitor Avian flu has hit turkey farms in North Dakota and South Dakota, the first cases in commercial flocks in the United States since early July. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service on Aug. 28 confirmed an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza in Faulk County in northeast […]
Sep 3, 2025
Colorado sees worst measles year in 3 decades after an additional 5 cases are confirmed in Mesa County
ABC News Denver Denver7 is continuing to inform the community about additional exposures in the Grand Junction area over the Labor Day weekend. Colorado is experiencing the worst measles year in three decades after five additional cases of the highly contagious virus were confirmed in Mesa County over the Labor Day weekend. The Colorado Department […]
Sep 3, 2025
The U.S. confirms its first human case of New World screwworm. What is it?
NPR The U.S. has confirmed its first human case of the New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite whose northward creep from South America has put the country’s cattle industry on high alert in recent months. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in coordination with the Maryland Department of Health, confirmed the case on Aug. 4 […]
Sep 3, 2025
Sorting Lyme disease fact from fiction
Stanford Report An infectious disease expert explains the tick-borne illness and why it’s so often misunderstood by patients and the practitioners advising them. A significant portion of Jake Scott’s practice involves helping patients who believe they have “chronic Lyme disease” understand what may actually be causing their symptoms. “My role combines patient care with education,” said […]
Sep 3, 2025
COVID cases, hospitalizations ticking up in the US but remain lower than last year
ABC News COVID-19 cases are ticking up in the U.S. as children head back to school and the country prepares to enter the colder weather months. For the week ending Aug. 9, the COVID hospitalization rate was 1.7 per 100,000, double the rate from two months ago, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control […]
Sep 3, 2025