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Theodore C. Eickhoff, MD, past Infectious Disease News Chief Medical Editor, dies at 86
Theodore C. (Ted) Eickhoff, MD, professor emeritus in the division of infectious diseases at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and longtime Chief Medical Editor of Infectious Disease News, died March 24 at age 86.
Controversial CDC pick draws mixed reactions
The Trump administration’s selection of longtime AIDS researcher Robert R. Redfield, MD, to be the next CDC director drew mixed reactions from experts and officials, including some who question his conduct on a research project several decades ago.
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Climate variability contributes to inconsistent transmission of yellow fever in Africa
Annual variations in climate across West and East Africa, including temperature suitability and rainfall, contribute to the differences in yellow fever transmission, according to findings published in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases.
Monkeypox re-emerges in Africa
In the past 10 years, human monkeypox cases have been reported in African countries that have seen few or no cases in several decades, presenting a serious public health challenge for area health officials and providers, according to researchers.
VIDEO: Women increase presence at conference
BOSTON — More women than men presented findings at this year’s Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections — a first for the meeting, according the organizers.
VIDEO: More women than men present at CROI
BOSTON — For the first time, at this year’s Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, more women than men presented findings at the meeting, according to CROI Chair Judith S. Currier, MD, professor of medicine and chief of the division of infectious diseases at the University of California, Los Angeles. The first authors of 537 of the 990 abstracts that were accepted this year were women, she said.
FDA approves first-ever tests to screen for tickborne parasites
The FDA recently announced it has approved the Imugen Babesia microti Arrayed Fluorescent Immunoassay for detecting antibodies to Babesia microti in human plasma samples, and the Imugen Babesia microti Nucleic Acid Test for the detection of B. microti DNA in human whole blood samples.
CDC links pet guinea pigs to multistate Salmonella outbreak
The CDC has announced a multistate outbreak of Salmonella enteritidis infections linked to pet guinea pigs.
Record Nigerian Lassa fever outbreak kills 72
A Lassa fever outbreak in Nigeria that began in January is now the largest on record in the West African country, according to WHO.
Low parasite density hints at comorbidity in children with malaria
Researchers discovered that blood levels of malaria parasites were inversely correlated with the likelihood of a child developing a comorbidity with a nonmalarial disease. Parasite densities, they said, could be an important indicator of coinfection.
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