Category: Featured Headlines
United States: Where U.S. Measles Outbreaks Are Spreading
NYT Measles continues to spread in West Texas and New Mexico, with more than 250 people infected — many unvaccinated school-age children. Two cases in Oklahoma, for which state officials have not provided a location, have also been linked to these outbreaks. Twelve other states have reported isolated measles cases, typically linked to international travel. Continue […]
Mar 12, 2025
This Is How Measles Kills
Wired Measles is known for its characteristic rash, but it can have serious respiratory and neurologic complications. Declining vaccination rates are fueling a growing measles outbreak in West Texas and New Mexico that has so far been linked to two deaths. In late February, an unvaccinated child in Texas with no underlying health conditions became the first […]
Mar 12, 2025
Co-Circulating Viruses Causing Concern in Mpox Outbreak
IDSE The mpox outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has spilled over into Uganda, which borders the DRC, according to reports at CROI 2025, which is ongoing in San Francisco (abstract 191). Surveillance has found co-circulating viruses, particularly varicella-zoster virus, with one person coming down with coinfections. That person died, according to Nicholas Bbosa, PhD, an assistant professor […]
Mar 12, 2025
5 years since the pandemic started, long COVID patients are still hoping for a cure
NPR It’s been five years since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic. But many patients with long COVID have yet to find meaningful recovery. Around 6% of adults in the U.S. — or roughly 18 million — are estimated to be living with the damaging aftermath of catching the virus, according to research and a long-running survey of U.S […]
Mar 12, 2025
His Daughter Was America’s First Measles Death in a Decade
The Atlantic Peter greeted me in the mostly empty gravel parking lot of a Mennonite church on the outskirts of Seminole, a small city in West Texas surrounded by cotton and peanut fields. The brick building was tucked in a cobbled-together neighborhood of scrapyards, metal barns, and modest homes with long dirt driveways. No sign out […]
Mar 11, 2025
The US Is Withdrawing From Global Health at a Dangerous Time
Bloomberg To keep an eye on some of the world’s most dangerous infectious diseases, scientists rely on reports from the Global Measles and Rubella Laboratory Network. Known affectionately as Gremlin, it’s a grouping of more than 700 international labs that test about 500,000 patient samples annually. Gremlin monitors the prevalence of a huge range of pathogens […]
Mar 5, 2025
WHO says Uganda’s Ebola caseload rises to 12
Reuters Uganda’s Ebola virus caseload has risen to 12, up from 10, with two people who died early last month being considered probable cases, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday. On Saturday WHO reported the death of the latest victim of the outbreak, a four-year-old boy who died last week at the country’s national referral hospital, […]
Mar 5, 2025
CDC says it is monitoring mysterious deadly disease in Congo
ABC News The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is closely monitoring an unknown disease that has killed dozens in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the agency said in a statement on Tuesday. “CDC is monitoring the situation closely and engaging with DRC officials on what support the agency can offer,” according to an agency spokesperson. […]
Mar 5, 2025
Cluster of community deaths in Basankusu, Equateur- Democratic Republic of the Congo
WHO On 9 February 2025, officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo reported to regional health authorities a cluster of 24 unexplained community deaths in a single village in Ekoto health area, Basankusu health zone, Equateur province. As of 25 February, a total of 53 deaths have been reported, with the last death occurring […]
Mar 5, 2025