A flea-borne disease once nearly eradicated in the United States is making a comeback. An outbreak of flea-borne typhus in Los Angeles County has sent six people to the hospital, according to a warning issued last week by county health officials, who said they are investigating a cluster of the disease in a high-density neighborhood of Los Angeles.

Three Florida counties have declared states of emergency due to a surge in locally acquired dengue fever, a mosquito-borne illness that has circulated in Florida for years.But unlike previous dengue o...

More than 2 million new cancers diagnosed worldwide in 2024 could be attributable to infections, according to study findings.This equates to about one of every eight cases.

Attendees at a wedding in Pennsylvania last year were sickened with a bacterial illness that investigators linked to untreated water from a spring contaminated with animal feces.At least one guest tes...

It was a summer of headline-grabbing foodborne outbreaks — the diarrhea-inducing iceberg lettuce, the jalapeños with Salmonella, and the class 1 recall of 19 million eggs, to name a few.But was this past summer really worse for outbreaks than in previous years, or a case of media hysteria?“When multiple outbreaks are in the news, it mayseemthatfoodborne illnesses are increasing, but increased

A fourth person with measles has died in Pennsylvania, the state’s health department reported on Tuesday. In addition to confirming the death of a Jefferson County woman with measles over the weekend,...

Two people have died in a growing measles outbreak in Pennsylvania.The Pennsylvania Department of Health announced the deaths Tuesday morning, noting that they are the first measles-related deaths in ...

Plans are underway to launch a phase 3 trial of an existing Ebola vaccine to fight the ongoing deadly outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, WHO told Healio.The trial could begin by mid-September, a much faster timeline than the 5 to 12 months typically needed for clinical trials being conducted outside an outbreak zone, WHO noted.

Health officials linked an outbreak of Salmonella that has sicked 345 people in 27 states to jalapeño peppers sourced from Mexico and distributed to restaurants and wholesalers in the United States.Th...

A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at ‌a global conference taking place in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screen...

Experts are touting a new DIY weapon in the war against mosquito-borne diseases. The “bucket of doom” is an eco-friendly mosquito trap that has trended on social media this summer.

The evidence remains strong that contaminated iceberg lettuce sourced by Taylor Farms in Mexico is to blame for the ongoing cyclosporiasis outbreak that has sickened thousands of people in the United ...

WHO has raised its national risk assessment for the Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo from “high” to “very high.”WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom ...

An Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda has surpassed 500 suspected cases, WHO’s top official said Tuesday.Of those suspected cases, 130 people have died, WHO Direct...

Sixty-five people are reported to have died in a new Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Africa CDC said Friday. The outbreak, occurring in a province in northeastern DRC...

The deadly hantavirus outbreak that killed three passengers aboard a cruise ship has raised questions about a relatively uncommon pathogen, including about how it spreads.The three passengers died of ...

On Monday, 15 American passengers from the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius moved into their temporary new home: the National Quarantine Unit at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.They face up to 42 days of isolation due to their potential exposure to Andes virus, a type of hantavirus known to spread between people. The virus killed three cruise ship passengers and

Eighteen additional American passengers from a cruise ship at the center of a deadly hantavirus outbreak have arrived back in the United States for monitoring, HHS officials and medical experts said at a press briefing Monday.The passengers — including two who have tested positive — were taken to facilities in Nebraska and Georgia, where they will be quarantined for 6 weeks.

MUNICH — A large observational study involving hundreds of thousands of patients in the United States saw no difference in treatment failure among adults who received one of two common antibiotic regimens prescribed for acute sinusitis.The finding is potentially practice-changing, one of the researchers said.

After a top U.S. health official blocked the publication of a study showing that COVID-19 vaccines prevent hospitalization, an emergency physician in Boston obtained the study and published it online ...

MUNICH — A monoclonal antibody being studied as a potential therapy for chikungunya virus infection showed potential as both a treatment for the mosquito-borne disease and as pre-exposure prophylaxis to prevent infection, researchers said. Hugh Watson, PhD, president of Quayside Research in Lyon, France, and colleagues studied the mAb, called EVT894, in a first-in-human randomized,

MUNICH — A large observational study involving hundreds of thousands of patients in the United States saw no difference in treatment failure among adults who received one of two common antibiotic regimens prescribed for acute sinusitis.The finding is potentially practice-changing, one of the researchers said.

Healio brings you highlights from the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases' annual conference, ESCMID Global Congress.

MUNICH — Children who survive severe malaria can experience cognitive impairment for many years after the infection, according to new study findings.The study, conducted in Uganda, reassessed around 900 children aged 4 to 15 years after their bouts with severe malaria and found they had diminished overall cognitive and math scores.

The CDC has paused diagnostic testing for more than two dozen infectious diseases —including rabies and pox viruses — according to the agency’s website.HHS spokesman Andrew Nixon told Healio that the pause is temporary while the CDC “evaluates these assays as part of our routine review to uphold our commitment to high-quality laboratory testing.”

The White House did not nominate a new CDC director on Wednesday despite coming up against a federally imposed deadline to do so. White House Spokesperson Kush Desai told Healio that NIH Director Jay ...

As the White House approaches a federally mandated deadline to nominate a new CDC director, there have been no public signs indicating who the administration has in mind for the position, or even if i...

A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s recent overhaul of the CDC’s childhood immunization schedule. U.S. District Judge Brian E. Murphy also temporarily blocked 13 a...

Americans have a greater trust in the scientists working in federal health agencies than the Trump administration-appointed leaders running them, according to a poll.The poll from the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania showed that 67% of Americans expressed confidence in career scientists working at federal health agencies, compared with their 43% confidence in

The quest to contain gonorrhea has been a decades-long struggle, but there is hope on the horizon in the form of new medications, clinicians said. In December, the FDA approved the first two new antib...

DENVER — In 2017, researchers in New Zealand published the first evidence that a vaccine might be able to prevent gonorrhea, a wily STI that has confounded scientists with it ability to dodge just abo...

DENVER — Researchers here presented what they said is the first evidence demonstrating that benefits paid through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, can improve a person&rsq...

Only 10 human cases of Guinea worm disease were reported worldwide in 2025 — the lowest number ever recorded.The Carter Center announced the historic data just after the 1-year anniversary of former President Jimmy Carter’s passing. The center, named for Carter and his wife Rosalynn, took over the global Guinea worm eradication effort in 1986, when there were approximately 3.5 million cases

A 3-day meeting of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices that was scheduled for next week has been called off, HHS confirmed to Healio on Thursday.HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon ...

NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, has been picked to also serve as acting director of the CDC, a White House official confirmed to Healio. Bhattacharya will oversee both agencies until a permane...