Category: Emerging Infectious Diseases
Measles outbreaks pose a threat to travelers in the US, Europe: What to know
USA Today As measles cases continue to rise in the U.S. and abroad, travelers may be concerned about visiting destinations with ongoing outbreaks. There have been 483 confirmed cases reported so far this year by more than a dozen states including California, Florida, Ohio and Vermont, with the highest numbers concentrated in Texas, New Mexico and Kansas, […]
Apr 2, 2025
NIH restores some long COVID grants
Chemical & Engineering News The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) appears to be reversing course on its decision to abruptly cancel a spate of grants for long COVID research earlier this week. On Friday, the NIH Office of Extramural Research notified an office at New York University (NYU) that funding awarded through the NIH’s long […]
Apr 2, 2025
HHS layoffs include staff overseeing bird flu response
Reuters The Trump administration has fired staff who were working on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s bird flu response as part of its mass layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services, according to a source familiar with the situation. The Tuesday firings, which many employees learned of as they attempted to enter […]
Apr 2, 2025
West Texas children treated for vitamin A toxicity as medical disinformation spreads alongside measles outbreak
Texas Standard Medical disinformation connected to the West Texas measles outbreak has created a new problem. Children are being treated for toxic levels of vitamin A. Medical disinformation connected to the West Texas measles outbreak has created a new problem. Children are being treated for toxic levels of vitamin A. Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock […]
Apr 2, 2025
Kent County sees first measles case in over a decade, exposure locations and dates listed
Chicago News Kent County hasn’t seen a case of seen a case of the measles since 2013, until now. The Kent County Health Department said on Tuesday that in partnership with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, they confirmed a case of measles in a Kent County resident. The case in Kent County […]
Apr 2, 2025
Long COVID Showed Me the Bottom of American Health Care
The Atlantic Access to clinics has only gotten patchier as attention to the disease has faded. My house was dark. Tinfoil covered the windows. The only light I could tolerate came from dimmable red bulbs. Ten weeks before, I had tested positive for COVID. On week three of my infection, I went to the emergency room […]
Apr 2, 2025
I Study Measles. I’m Terrified We’re Headed for an Epidemic.
NYT Opinion By Michael Mina Dr. Mina is an epidemiologist and immunologist who has studied measles. We used to think of measles outbreaks in the United States as isolated events: short-lived and confined to close-knit communities with low vaccination rates. A flare here, a bubble there. But as those bubbles grow and converge, the United States could be […]
Apr 2, 2025
What are the long-term effects of measles in kids and adults?
MedNewsToday As the initial measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico has grown and spread to 378 people in 18 statesTrusted Source, many people, and especially parents have been worried about the long-term health effects of measles infection. Measles is seen as relatively short-lived viral disease, although the acute symptoms can take around 7–18 days to show. What’s […]
Apr 1, 2025
12 months and 70 cases since the first human bird flu infection: Are we any safer?
ABC News One year ago, the first bird flu infection in a human in the United States was reported in a Texas dairy worker, just weeks after the virus had been found in cattle for the first time ever. While the virus has spread in birds for decades, in recent years it has started to […]
Apr 1, 2025
Mpox poses an ever-increasing epidemic and pandemic risk
Nature The human interaction with mpox has changed across its entire endemic range, revealing the endemic and pandemic risk of monkeypox virus and the current knowledge gaps on its biology that hamper virus control. Humans are an ecological niche for orthopoxviruses (OPXV) such as mpox, a niche originally filled by smallpox (variola virus; VARV). Since […]
Apr 1, 2025