Zoonotic Infections News

Ticks carrying the bacterium that causes Rocky Mountain spotted fever are more than twice as likely to feed on humans rather than dogs when temperatures increase, study results indicate.

Researchers determined that Chapare virus likely spread from person to person during a deadly outbreak in Bolivia, according to findings presented at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Annual Meeting.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s 11th Ebola outbreak was declared over today, marking the end of a 6-month effort in Équateur province.

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Efforts by IDWeek’s program committee to ensure gender equity during the conference led to a more than 13 percentage-point increase in the proportion of speaker slots filled by women since 2013, according to an analysis.

In the spring, in anticipation that the COVID-19 pandemic could complicate IDWeek, organizers asked presenters to prerecord sessions in the event they could not travel.

Like many other medical conferences, IDWeek was converted to a virtual meeting this year because of COVID-19.

Individuals with Lyme neuroborreliosis were not at overall increased risk for psychiatric disorders, according to results of a nationwide population-based matched cohort study published in JAMA Psychiatry.

A combination of interferon beta-1b and lopinavir-ritonavir reduced mortality in hospitalized patients with Middle East respiratory syndrome, according to results from a randomized clinical trial in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Between 2003 and 2018, the United States recorded an average of eight cases of eastern equine encephalitis per year. Last year, there were 38 cases of the mosquito-borne disease, including 15 deaths.