Category: Emerging Infectious Diseases
Brazil confirms bird flu in main poultry-producing state
Poultry World According to Brazil’s Official Veterinary Service, 2 new outbreaks have been confirmed in the country, this time in the state of Paraná, a state that accounts for 35% of Brazil’s poultry production. The Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, and Supply updated the number of cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in wild […]
Jul 5, 2023
The doctor who warned the world of the mpox outbreak of 2022 is still worried
NPR A little over a year ago, when the COVID-19 pandemic was still a public health emergency, a little-known virus came seemingly out of nowhere to add to the world’s worries – a virus known at the time as monkeypox. Monkeypox – since renamed mpox following criticisms that the name held misleading and racist connotations – went […]
Jul 5, 2023
National Guardsman identified as individual who tested positive for malaria
Texas Local News Christopher Shingler said he was among the troops stationed in Brownsville in May on a border security assignment prior to the end of Title 42. He was heavily bitten by bugs, including mosquitoes, and started experiencing symptoms within two weeks, Shingler said. “I started having fevers and vomiting, and that was the […]
Jul 5, 2023
HHS CDC Recommendation Follows the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ (ACIP) Recommendations for the Use of New GSK and Pfizer RSV Vaccines for People Ages 60 Years and Older Today, in response to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) recommendation of the Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) vaccine for seniors over 60, U.S. Department of […]
Jul 5, 2023
A Rare Domestic Resurgence of Malaria Is Circulating in the US
Wired AT LEAST FOUR people in Florida and one in Texas have been diagnosed with malaria that they must have caught near where they live—because, according to health officials, none of them traveled outside the US or their own states. The very unusual discovery has left infectious disease specialists wondering: Who else might be ill, and will local […]
Jul 5, 2023
Dr. James Lawler reviews studies reinforcing lessons learned throughout the pandemic including air travel surveillance, variant trends, excess mortality, the role of children in household transmission, and more.
Jun 27, 2023
What Do We Know About the EU.1.1 COVID Variant?
MedPageToday It’s a descendant of XBB.1.5, but it “isn’t setting off any red flags for me,” expert says. The CDC is tracking a handful of new COVID variants, including the EU.1.1 variant, which now makes up an estimated 1.7% of U.S. COVID cases. EU.1.1 is an XBB sublineage related to the XBB.1.5 variant that currently accounts for […]
Jun 27, 2023
Patient with suspected bubonic plague admitted to hospital in Mongolia
Akai A patient in critical condition with suspected bubonic plague was admitted to the regional hospital of Gobi-Altai aimag province of Mongolia, located on the border with China, head of the public relations department of the National Center for Zoonotic Infectious DiseasesEnkhbayaryn Dulmaa announced. A 21-year-old young man was sent to the regional hospital from Bugat […]
Jun 27, 2023
Household COVID Omicron spread lower among vaccinated, study finds
CIDRAP An analysis during the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant wave in Japan suggests a lower rate of in-home COVID-19 transmission when the index (primary) patient or contact were fully vaccinated against COVID—and no transmission when both parties were fully vaccinated. The study was published late last week in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases. Higher Omicron secondary attack risk […]
Jun 27, 2023
What exactly is “long COVID” (aka “post-acute sequelae SARS-CoV-2,” or PASC)? How do you know if you have it? Dr. Lawler answers commonly asked questions in this first of a three-part Transmission Briefs series on long COVID/PASC.
Jun 27, 2023