Gastrointestinal Infections News

Automatic hand dryers in men’s and women’s public restrooms can harbor and spread bacteria, including Staphylococcus and fecal matter, according to research presented during ASM Microbe, which is being held virtually this year.

Health officials linked a large multistate outbreak of Salmonella Newport infections to red onions from a California supplier, according to the CDC.

Researchers estimated that the total annual economic burden of norovirus in the United States is $10.6 billion — “higher than other diseases ... that have received far more attention,” they wrote.

An outbreak of Salmonella Newport is “rapidly growing in size” across the United States, according to the CDC. The agency said it has not identified a source of the infections.

Trichinellosis is a parasitic infection occurring in people who eat meat-eating mammals. It is reported to cause about 10,000 infections in humans worldwide each year.

Summer is upon us, and it is the time of year when we start to see an increasing incidence of gastroenteritis from increased exposure to various water and foodborne pathogens.

IDWeek organizers decided unanimously to convert this year’s meeting to a completely virtual event over concerns about COVID-19.

Donald Kaye, MD, MACP, an influential infectious diseases clinician and researcher and longtime Infectious Disease News Editorial Board Member, died July 4 at the age of 88, his family announced.

Patients with Clostridioides difficile infection who also have cancer spent more than 20 days longer in the hospital on average than those without Clostridioides difficile infection, according to a retrospective analysis in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. This resulted in an average of nearly $60,000 more in the cost of care.

At least 80 million children aged younger than 1 year could miss routine vaccinations because of the COVID-19 pandemic, WHO and other groups warned today.