Zoonotic Infections News

BALTIMORE — A second feeding for invasive mosquitoes spreading in the United States and Europe may make it more likely to spread Zika and other viruses than after just one feeding, according to researchers.

A yellow fever outbreak driven by epizootic transmission in Brazil highlights the importance of monitoring mosquito populations and nonhuman primate deaths when assessing the risk for infection among humans, according to findings published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

Deforestation creates a habitat preferred by mosquitoes that transmit human diseases, according to researchers.

According to the CDC, the goal of One Health is to encourage collaboration between multiple disciplines locally, nationally and globally to improve health for people, animals and the environment.

An outbreak of plague in Madagascar has started to decline in recent weeks, with 12 previously affected districts reporting no new confirmed or probable cases, according to WHO.

A half-century of progress fighting schistosomiasis in China is being jeopardized by land-use patterns and landscape connectivity, which are expanding the range of the snails that host Schistosoma japonicum parasites, researchers said.

Regions in Africa that are currently considered nonendemic for viral hemorrhagic fever are actually highly susceptible to outbreaks, according to researchers.

Researchers in Brazil recently detected yellow fever virus RNA in urine and semen samples from a convalescent patient in Brazil.

Two Florida residents who ate part of a prepackaged salad that contained a bat carcass were unlikely to have been infected with rabies but received treatment as a precaution, according to a new MMWR report.

A researcher at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso has received a 2-year, $420,000 grant from the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to determine which human genes allow the Zika virus to attack and eliminate human cells, according to a recent press release.