Zoonotic Infections News

Days after winning the White House, President-elect Donald J. Trump declared during a TV interview that he would try to keep in place parts of the Affordable Care Act guaranteeing coverage for patients with pre-existing conditions and allowing children to remain on their parents’ health care plans until age 26 years — comments that seemed at odds with his persistent campaign pledge to “repeal and replace” President Barack Obama’s signature health care law.

New research presented at the 2016 America Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene annual meeting found mosquitoes can carry more than one flavivirus at a time, enabling them to potentially infect humans with Zika and chikungunya viruses in a single bite.

NEW YORK — Symptoms alone are not enough reason to test a patient for Lyme disease, and not every patient with Lyme disease will present with target lesions, according to a presentation at the 2016 Infectious Diseases in Children Symposium.

Researchers discovered that red squirrels living in the United Kingdom and Ireland carry leprosy bacteria, but say there is little risk of transmission to humans.

PHILADELPHIA – The Wistar Institute recently hosted a Q&A discussion panel event during which researchers shared promising new developments for a DNA-based vaccine as a preventive measure against the mosquito-borne Zika virus.

Air networks, traveler demographics, historical ties between nations and malaria endemicity all contribute to complex patterns by which malaria is spread to nonendemic countries, according to results of a meta-analysis.

Kansas State University researchers have developed a new vaccine as an antibiotic-free method to prevent the transmission of Fusobacterium necrophorum in sheep and cattle to meat consumers, according to a press release.

People living in the southern United States and children aged 5 to 9 years are at greatest risk for contracting cat scratch disease, according to a retrospective analysis of all nationally diagnosed cases of the infection from 2005 to 2013.

Infection with Rift Valley fever virus was associated with a sevenfold increased risk for miscarriage in pregnant women in Sudan, according to a recent study.

A new insecticidal net treated with an insect growth regulator was more effective than standard insecticidal nets against pyrethroid-resistant Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes in Benin, Africa, according to study data.