Zoonotic Infections News

IDWeek, originally planned for San Diego, will be an all-virtual meeting for the second year in a row because of COVID-19.

Researchers identified Plasmodium falciparum that is resistant to artemisinin — the main component of first-line treatments for malaria in endemic areas — among a small group of patients in northern Uganda. 

I began my training at the beginning of the HIV pandemic. I still remember a lecture during my second year of medical school in which a young man told us that his friends were dying of a new disease called gay-related immunodeficiency disease, subsequently known as AIDS.

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, data indicate that there has been a surge in interest among U.S. college students in pursuing medicine as a career.

Intravenous artesunate was safe and effective in treating severe malaria in adults in the United States, researchers reported in Clinical Infectious Diseases.

I chose ID as a medical specialty because of the intellectual stimulation and investigative nature that accompanies the study of microbes within humans.

People who received a Lyme disease diagnosis in a hospital setting had increased risk for mental disorders, affective disorders, suicide attempts and suicide, according to results of a nationwide cohort study conducted in Denmark.

Health officials in Guinea have confirmed the first-ever case of Marburg virus in West Africa, WHO said.

On my first day of medical school, I was assigned a physical diagnosis tutor who was a well-known infectious diseases specialist. He had encyclopedic knowledge. He was a remarkable teacher and — equally important — a great storyteller.

July 6 is World Zoonoses Day, which is observed each year on the anniversary of Louis Pasteur administering the first rabies vaccine to a human in 1885.