Category Archives: Infection

The CDC has found evidence of a uniquely American strain of cutaneous leishmaniasis in U.S. patients with no travel history, suggesting local transmission of the disease by domestic sandflies. There’s growing concern that the more lethal visceral leishmaniasis could establish in U.S. sandflies due to unscreened imported dogs carrying the pathogen. Analysis shows <span class="glossaryLink" […]

Zika virus infection in pregnant rhesus macaques slows fetal growth and affects how infants and mothers interact in the first month of life, according to a new study from researchers at the California National Primate Research Center at the University of California, Davis. The work, published Oct. 25 in Science Translational Medicine, has implications for […]

jaboticaba / iStock Adult long-COVID patients in England reported worse mental health and related quality of life than those who were never infected or recovered from their infections, suggests a study yesterday in Nature Communications. Imperial College London researchers analyzed self-reported mental health and quality of life among 276,840 participants from August to December 2022. […]

NEW YORK — Gay and bisexual men at high risk for mpox infection should get vaccinated for the virus even after the current outbreak ends, government health advisers said Wednesday. The committee’s recommendation now goes to the director to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and — if she signs off on it — […]

The Centers for Disease Prevention and Control has tested a specimen for Naegleria fowleri infection and it came back negative. Public health officials in Mohave County and the Arizona Department of Health Services sent the sample to the CDC Tuesday for possible exposure of the brain-eating amoeba. According to the CDC, Naegleria fowleri infections are […]

AUSTIN, Texas (KXAN) – A flesh-eating parasitic disease, typically seen in people who travel to tropical or subtropical areas, is now spreading through some sand flies in parts of the U.S., according to a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analysis. The disease, known as leishmaniasis, occurs through a bite of an infected female […]