Author: Claudinne Miller
Teenager contracts rare ‘welder’s anthrax,’ marking the ninth known case ever reported
Live Science A teenager training to be a welder contracted a rare and dangerous lung infection, prompting a combined state and federal investigation. The patient: An 18-year-old in Louisiana The symptoms: The teenager, who was training to be a welder, developed a cough and was hospitalized with pneumonia and respiratory failure a week later. He was intubated at the […]
Feb 11, 2026
DC health officials warn of measles exposures across city, including March for Life rally
ABC News Health officials in Washington, D.C., are warning that people may have been exposed to measles in locations across the city. DC Health said in a statement that it “was notified of multiple confirmed cases of measles whose carriers visited multiple locations in the District while contagious.” Among those locations is the annual National March for […]
Feb 11, 2026
National Cancer Institute studying ivermectin’s ‘ability to kill cancer cells,’ alarming career scientists
STAT The NCI director didn’t cite new evidence that prompted the agency to look into it. The National Cancer Institute, the federal research agency charged with leading the war against the nation’s second-largest killer, is studying ivermectin as a potential cancer treatment, according to its top official. “There are enough reports of it, enough interest […]
Feb 11, 2026
4 times as many measles cases in a few weeks than US typically averages in a whole year
ABC News There have been at least 733 confirmed measles cases reported across the nation, the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed Friday. In just a few weeks, the United States reported four times as many cases than typically seen throughout an entire calendar year, the CDC said. Before last year, which had […]
Feb 11, 2026
F.D.A. Refuses to Review Moderna Flu Vaccine
NYT The vaccine maker’s shots involve the successful Covid vaccines’ RNA technology. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has broadly rejected it, canceling millions of dollars in research projects. The vaccine maker Moderna said on Tuesday that the Food and Drug Administration had notified the company that the agency would not review its mRNA flu vaccine, the […]
Feb 11, 2026
Teaching People to Counter Misinformation, Not Just Spot It
Carnegie Mellon Univ Can we train people to speak up when they see misinformation on social media? Most media literacy research efforts focus on training people to identify true from false information. However, learning to recognize accurate information doesn’t automatically help stop inaccurate information from spreading online. Many of us have seen false or misleading […]
Jan 28, 2026
Measles in America: Five things to know from a Stanford Medicine expert
Stanford Medicine The U.S. measles surge is a sign that more vaccination is needed, said a Stanford Medicine pediatric infectious disease physician. Here’s what else she wants you to know. After a sustained surge of measles outbreaks last year, the United States is likely to lose its status as a country that has eliminated the […]
Jan 28, 2026
Liberia mpox outbreak prompts CDC travel notice
Outbreak News Today The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Level 2 – Practice Enhanced Precautions travel notice due to an outbreak of clade II monkeypox in Liberia. According to the Africa CDC, Liberia has reported 1,451 confirmed mpox cases and six deaths in 2025. As of January 17, Liberia has seen […]
Jan 28, 2026
Ethiopia Declares End of Marburg Virus Outbreak After 42 Days Without New Cases
MedAfrica On Monday, January 26, Ethiopia has officially declared an end to the Marburg virus disease outbreak, after recording no new cases for 42 consecutive days, in line with World Health Organization (WHO) criteria. Health Minister Mekdes Daba announced the development in Addis Ababa, describing it as a major achievement for the country’s health system. […]
Jan 28, 2026
South Africa: Endangered African penguins threatened by bird flu
Xinhua An outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), commonly called bird flu, is threatening the survival of the critically endangered African penguins living off the coast of South Africa, local media reported. The Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds (SANCCOB) said 23 African penguins had tested positive for the disease since […]
Jan 28, 2026