Cholera

A surge in measles cases linked to declining vaccination rates could threaten the United States’ measles elimination status, the CDC said in 2024.

In a large cohort of adults who underwent surgery, nasal colonization with Staphylococcus aureus accounted for most postoperative staph infections, according to a study published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.

WHO this week announced that cholera cases increased by 13% and cholera deaths increased by 71% globally in 2023.

A single dose of Eubiologics’s oral cholera vaccine provided significant protection against cholera for at least 36 months, according to data from a vaccination campaign organized in a cholera-endemic city in Africa.

Brain fog and other long COVID symptoms could arise from depleted serotonin triggered by persistent SARS-CoV-2 infection in the gut, supporting the study of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors for treatment of long COVID.

BOSTON — An ongoing outbreak of cholera in Haiti has infected nearly 1 million people, and the situation will not improve unless action is taken, Louise Ivers, MD, MPH, FIDSA, FASTMH, told Healio at IDWeek.

Stool culture “performed worse than would be expected” in diagnosing cholera during a period of waning cases in Haiti compared with PCR testing, according to the results of a small study.

I grew up in Bangkok, where I saw first-hand the impact of cholera, dengue, malaria and other tropical diseases — and experienced the early waves of the seventh pandemic of cholera.