Parents are opting for a second shot of MMR vaccine sooner, which aligns with guidance in Germany, the UK and France Measles cases are accelerating in the US, with twice as many confirmed cases as last year, and more parents…
Lancaster County, home to the largest Amish population in the U.S., is now the epicenter of the nation’s worst measles outbreak in 35 years. Vaccination rates have long been low among the Amish, and are now falling in the general population, creating…
A retrospective study of 207 sepsis patients found calprotectin and dynamic troponin T change were independently associated with sepsis-induced myocardial injury, with combined discrimination only modestly better than troponin change alone.
A systematic review of 40 studies finds that colistin resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa is driven mainly by chromosomal mutations in pmrAB and phoPQ, with plasmid-borne mcr-1 genes emerging across human, animal and environmental sources. News Source: Juliet Wilcox. (October 30, 2026). Colistin resistance…
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has recorded 10,193 confirmed Ebola cases and 4,960 deaths, as the country battles the largest and deadliest outbreak in history. The figures, reported in the country’s October 27 situation report, highlight the scale of an outbreak…
A study in Benin tracked patients and caregivers and found carbapenem-resistant bacterial colonization rose sharply during hospitalization and continued to climb after discharge, with genomic sequencing linking strains between hospital and home settings. In total, 248 participants were included across five…
LEBANON COUNTY, Pa. — The Pennsylvania Department of Health (DOH) confirmed on Wednesday that an individual who tested positive for measles may have exposed others at the Target at 1745 Quentin Road in Lebanon. The individual was at the store on Oct.
Scientists in Lagos, Nigeria, have decoded the genome of a multidrug-resistant, ESBL-producing strain of Klebsiella pneumoniae recovered from Corchorus olitorius, the leafy vegetable locally known as Ewedu, offering a detailed look at the resistance and virulence genes circulating in the…
Children with double-J ureteral stents left in place for more than 4 weeks have a higher rate of symptomatic breakthrough UTIs despite antibiotic prophylaxis than those with shorter stent durations. Prolonged Stenting Linked to Breakthrough Urinary Tract Infection in Children Among…
Fifteen years ago, doctors in Europe noticed a remarkable thing happening in people with chronic hepatitis B infections. When patients went off their medications, the virus started to come back — and then some of the patients were cured. Something was…
Respiratory, GI, vector‑borne, and antimicrobial resistance trends and care.
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