Turkana County in northwestern Kenya was supposed to be the land that malaria forgot. An arid, windy region abutting Uganda, South Sudan and Ethiopia, its climate was thought to be too dry for the mosquitoes that harbor malaria-causing ...
Oct 12, 2023
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States are seeing an alarming surge in cases of congenital syphilis, a preventable infection that can lead to miscarriage, stillbirth, newborn death—or lifelong complications such as blindness or deafness.
Oct 3, 2023
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Rapid identification of patients contaminated by "superbacteria" known as "carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae" (CRE), with early isolation of these patients, reduces transmission in hospital emergency departments. However, ...
Oct 2, 2023
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The United States is experiencing an alarming wave of congenital syphilis, and one southern state saw a 1,000% rise in babies born with the infection between 2016 and 2022.
Sep 21, 2023
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Brown rats found and analyzed near Atlanta now carry rat lungworm, researchers report.
Sep 21, 2023
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News reports this morning describe how shocked doctors removed a live worm from a woman's brain in a Canberra hospital last year. The woman had previously been admitted to hospital with stomach symptoms, dry cough and night ...
Aug 29, 2023
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The world's first case of a new parasitic infection in humans has been discovered by researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) and the Canberra Hospital after they detected a live eight-centimeter roundworm ...
Aug 28, 2023
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A bacterium that causes a disease called scrub typhus—a disease not previously reported in the United States—has been detected in North Carolina, according to a new study by researchers at North Carolina State University ...
Jul 13, 2023
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Increased hospitalizations involving fungal infections were identified during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study published in the July issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases.
Jun 16, 2023
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A group of researchers led by Sen Pei at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health discussed the utility of real-time forecasting models for antimicrobial-resistant organisms. The article appears in the journal ...
Mar 15, 2023
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