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How a trip to the Amazon got me Hooked on ID

[Editor’s note: The following story is part of our “Hooked on ID” series. Tell us your story by emailing infectiousdisease@healio.com, with the subject line “Hooked on ID.”]My inte...

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...

Can you match the disease with the animal that spreads it?

Gastrointestinal Infections

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

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...

15 Habits Infectious Disease Experts Swear by to Avoid Getting Sick

Infectious disease experts share 15 daily habits that reduce your risk of getting sick The post 15 Habits Infectious Disease Experts Swear by to Avoid Getting Sick appeared first o...

Disease Tracing

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

Lesser-known South American diseases offer clues on next pandemic

By the time colleagues called Dr. Matías Lahitte, an Argentine infectious disease specialist, it was too late.

Medieval Diseases Have Returned To Los Angeles

Medieval Diseases Have Returned To Los AngelesTYLER DURDENIn what can only be described as a stunning failure of state and local policy and leadership, Los Angeles County recorded...

How Legionnaires’ Disease Can Turn Deadly as Bacteria Multiply Inside Immune Cells

Learn how Legionella bacteria invade the lungs and cause pneumonia, respiratory failure, and other life-threatening complications.

Nearly Invisible Fish-Killing Pathogens Found in Brazil for the First Time

Pathogens that cause columnaris disease, previously found only in Asia and the United States, were identified in samples from São Paulo, Minas Gerais, and Paraná. A nearly transpar...

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.

HSE managing outbreak of potentially serious infection at Limerick neonatal intensive care unit

While most human infections caused by pseudomonas are not severe, it can cause serious infections in people already suffering from serious illness.

Infection Control in Veterinary Medicine: First Do No Harm, Including to Yourself

In this VETgirl blog, Dr. Katherine Brannick discusses infection control, framing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) as the last line of defense. Dr. Brannick introduces a risk-ba...

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

Serious human illness transmitted by ticks has been identified

Scientists have uncovered a new pathogen transmitted to humans from ticks, reminding us that one of the biggest threats to our health is zoonotic disease.Continu...

Rare South American Diseases Offer Clues on the Next Pandemic

Ebola virus, hantavirus and the pathogen that causes Covid-19 likely jumped from animals to humans. So do these viruses — and scientists say climate change is speeding their spread...

America Getting Lesson in Consequences of Trump’s War on Public Health as Rare Disease Outbreaks Ravage the Country

Feeling healthy yet? The post America Getting Lesson in Consequences of Trump’s War on Public Health as Rare Disease Outbreaks Ravage the Country appeared first on Futurism.

Infection Study Maps Protein Contact Sites, Shows Influenza Hijacks Paraspeckles

Influenza A virus is infamous for its speed—yet the molecular choreography inside infected cells is still being uncovered. In a new study published in Nature Microbiology, research...

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...

Immune Pathway Identified That Prevents C. albicans Infection from Becoming Deadly

Researchers working with mice identified an immune pathway that prevents what is normally a harmless fungus, Candida albicans, from developing into a fatal infection. The post Immu...

4 dead in Upper East Side Legionnaires’ disease outbreak

Legionella pneumophila bacteria causing respiratory illnesses as Legionnaires disease as a a serious form of pneumonia as a pathology microbiology and Epidemiology for antibiotic t...

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...

Disease outbreak hits Spain’s migrant-packed enclave

Infectious diseases have been confirmed among migrants in Spain’s Ceuta amid warnings of overcrowding and inadequate sanitation Read Full Article at RT.com