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U.S. Launches Disease Tracker to Improve Monitoring of Vaccine-Preventable Illnesses

A new national website is being launched to provide a clearer, faster view of vaccine-preventable disease activity across the United States. The U.S. Disease Tracker, developed by...

New Zealand shares experience of Vibrio outbreaks

This is Part 2 of a 3-part seriesResearchers have detailed four Vibrio outbreaks in New Zealand that affected 117 people with 43 hospitalizations.In many places, including New Zeal...

Molecular surveillance of multiplicity of infection, haplotype frequencies, and prevalence in infectious diseases

by Henri Christian Junior Tsoungui Obama, Kristan Alexander Schneider Background The presence of multiple different pathogen variants within the same infection, referred to as mult...

The disease from the past that’s irritating but far from harmless

Operationalizing One Digital Health and FAIR Data Principles for Disease Surveillance in a Low-Medium Income Country in...

Background: Recent crises involving zoonotic diseases (Ebola, COVID-19, and Mpox) have highlighted the limitations of fragmented public health systems for the prevention and respon...

Understanding the risks of Q fever

Q fever can easily be mistaken for influenza, but for people working with livestock it can have serious and long-lasting health consequences. Knowing the risks, recognising the sym...

LA Peds Ready Podcast: Special Pathogens – Part 1

In this episode, we are joined by Brad Goldberg, MD (Children's Hospital Los Angeles), Erika Cheung, RN (Children's Hospital Los Angeles), and Pooja Nawathe, MD (Cedars-Sinai)—lead...

Accounting for the long-distance transmission route: An epidemiological model of airborne disease transmission in hospit...

by Olivier Gaufrès, Quentin J. Leclerc, Julien Derdevet, George Shirreff, Solen Kernéis, Lulla Opatowski, Laura Temime, Maylis Layan Nosocomial transmission of respiratory infecti...

IDAMS Study Improves Early Prediction of Severe Dengue Outcomes

Dengue fever is entering a new era of clinical risk assessment as researchers seek to identify, as early as possible, which patients are likely to deteriorate. A study by L. Phung...

Gastrointestinal Infections

Gastrointestinal infections are no longer viewed as routine infectious diseases diagnosed and managed solely through conventional approaches. Advances in molecular diagnostics and...

The Sunday Edition: Zoonoses

An estimated 1,000,000,000 people are affected by zoonotic influenza each year. Some zoonoses can be transmitted by food and water.

Disease Tracing

by NALC Research Fellow Jordan Berry and Senior Staff Attorney Elizabeth Rumley In December 2003, the United States confirmed its first...

Reconstruction of historical malaria transmission in Senegal using multiplex serocatalytic models

by Gaëlle Baudemont, Thomas Obadia, Laura Garcia, Camille Lambert, Françoise Donnadieu, Fatoumata Diene Sarr, Joseph Faye, Cheikh Sokhna, Inès Vigan-Womas, Aissatou Toure-Balde, Ch...

Proposals put forward to boost Croatian surveillance

Three options have been identified to improve disease surveillance in Croatia with current challenges including fragmented systems and a lack of resources.Campylobacteriosis and sa...

Kansas City Health Department launches communicable disease dashboard

Kansas City Health Department launches communicable disease dashboard

Accounting for Defective Viral Genomes in viral consensus genome reconstruction, application to influenza virus

by Kévin Da Silva, Nadia Naffakh, Marie-Anne Rameix-Welti, Frédéric Lemoine In the context of viral epidemic surveillance, generating accurate consensus viral genomes from sequenc...

Today's Topic: A Directory of Foodborne Diseases

There are 48 million cases of foodborne illness annually in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Rising virus threat spurs winter vaccine plea for WA

More than 5000 cases of RSV have been recorded in WA so far this year.

Communities strengthen zoonotic disease surveillance in southern Zambia

Communities in southern Zambia are helping veterinary services detect animal diseases earlier through local reporting, anthrax vaccination and better livestock health facilities. T...

We’ve built capacity for early disease detection – ZNPHI

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Influenza-Like Illness Forecasting Using Multisource Data: Comparative Deep Learning Study

Background: Accurate forecasting of influenza-like illness (ILI) is crucial for public health. Integrating novel digital data streams (eg, internet searches and human mobility) wit...

Ill food handler caused outbreak despite following protocols

A sick food handler likely contaminated items served at an event in Australia despite preparing food after symptoms had stopped, according to researchers.An outbreak of gastrointes...

Worsening diarrhea outbreak raises questions about changes at CDC

Cases of cyclosporiasis — the foodborne illness that can cause prolonged bouts of watery diarrhea — continue to surge nationwide, raising questions about the partial dismantling of...

Afghanistan reports sharp surge in Crimean-Congo cases, 21 deaths in June: WHO

KABUL, July 21 (Xinhua) -- The World Health Organization's office in Afghanistan has reported a significant surge in suspected Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) cases, with 4...