Zoonotic Infections News

I just was looking for something to do during the summer hiatus after my first year in medical school. Back then, we had summers off, and students often sought medicine-related jobs to broaden their experience while earning a few dollars.

Since its founding in 2018, the Infectious Diseases Society of America’s Inclusion, Diversity, Access and Equity Task Force (IDA&E) has worked to address racial and ethnic disparities in health care.

My path into infectious diseases began in 1983 during my intern year at Grady, when patients with a new infectious disease that we now know as HIV/AIDS began showing up.

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.

The ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Équateur Province has surpassed the total number of cases recorded during the province’s last outbreak in 2018, according to data reported by WHO.

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.

Rat-bite fever occurs rarely in the United States, but is more prominent in children compared with other populations when it does occur, according to findings published in in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.

WHO declared the end of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s 10th Ebola outbreak today, marking the end of the second largest Ebola outbreak in history.

Gitanjali Pai, MD, AAHIVS, has devised a way to shield patients from the stigma of an HIV diagnosis and encourage them to continue to seek care.