Emerging Diseases News

Nearly 10% of women infected with SARS-CoV-2 during pregnancy had post-acute sequelae 6 or more months later, according to results of the RECOVER-Pregnancy study published in Obstetrics & Gynecology.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, MSc, said Wednesday that he will convene an emergency committee to determine if the increasing spread of mpox in Africa represents a public health emergency of international concern.

WHO this week announced a project to speed development of a messenger RNA vaccine against highly pathogenic avian influenza in humans.

CMS included a new infectious disease consult add-on code as part of its proposed new fee schedule could help improve compensation for ID clinicians, according to the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

Women with asymptomatic or mild COVID-19 infection at the time of frozen embryo transfer did not experience significant adverse early pregnancy outcomes, researchers reported in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth.

In March, Puerto Rico declared a public health emergency after recording 549 cases of dengue virus since the start of 2024. The number rose to more than 1,900 cases as of July 24, when the CDC issued a health alert for the United States.

ID is a dynamic field that is constantly changing. The types of infections we’re talking about today are different than what we may have been talking about 5 years ago. So, it’s intellectually stimulating and challenging.

Researchers developed a low-cost rapid test to detect an invasive species of mosquito that has adapted to live near humans in urban environments, which they hope can be used in areas far from medical labs.

Throughout the course of human history, one infectious disease (Figure 1) may account for more deaths than any other, perhaps all others combined.

More than 70 million adults — or one in four — in the United States reported having a disability in 2022, according to a press release from the CDC.