Zoonotic Infections News

WASHINGTON — Carlos del Rio, MD, an Infectious Disease News Editorial Board Member and the new president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, discussed his agenda with Healio.

The COVID-19 pandemic and H1N1 epidemic were associated with adverse mental health events in adolescents and youth from low- and middle-income countries, researchers reported in JAMA Psychiatry.

The FDA has issued an emergency use authorization to Abbott Molecular for its real-time PCR test for monkeypox using lesion swab specimens from those with suspected virus infection.

I was a college student at University of Texas in the mid-90s, when the book The Hot Zone by Richard Preston was released.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland — Although nearly every health care facility has felt the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, smaller, nonacademic medical centers are facing these problems with fewer resources to fall back on.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland — COVID-19 and monkeypox have caused severe stress on the health care system, which has weakened the overall response to other ongoing infectious disease battles like the one against antimicrobial resistance.

Between rapidly increasing case counts and a flood of misinformation reported online and in media, the facts surrounding the current monkeypox outbreak around the world and in the United States might indicate some cause for alarm.

Texas officials announced the first death of someone in the United States with monkeypox, though officials have not determined whether the disease was the person’s cause of death.

Monkeypox has recently been declared a public health emergency of international concern by the WHO, and more than 15,000 cases have been reported in the United States during the ongoing outbreak.

I first became interested in the medical field while dissecting a frog in my junior high biology class.