Breaking Down Barriers, Having Conversations in the Communities
In 2024, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released its surveillance report that showed that despite Black women in the United States making up just 13% of the overall female population, they accounted for 50% of HIV diagnoses among women.1 Barriers for Black women getting HIV prevention and care include access, economic, and cultural, […]
New Combo Drug Shows Strong Results For Worm Infections in Children
Alejandro Krolewiecki, PhD Image credits: Children With Worms Soil-transmitted helminths (STHs) like Trichuris trichiura, hookworms, and Strongyloides stercoralis continue to pose a significant health threat, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. These infections cause debilitating conditions, especially in tropical and subtropical regions. Existing treatments, such as albendazole, have shown limited effectiveness, particularly against T trichiura. Recent studies […]
Bird flu is mutating, but antivirals still work
One of the earliest strains of bird flu isolated from a human in Texas shows a unique constellation of mutations that enable it to more easily replicate in human cells and cause more severe disease in mice compared to a strain found in dairy cattle, researchers from Texas Biomedical Research Institute (Texas Biomed) report in […]
The Changing Climate of Vector-Borne Diseases
The consequences of climate change are now readily visible worldwide. Driven primarily by greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere by human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels, average global temperatures for the past decade have been the warmest in recorded history.1 Current trends are expected to persist, with global average temperatures estimated to […]
Widespread Beta-Lactamase Resistance Genes Pose Growing Threat Across One Health Domains in the US
Babafela Awosile, DVM, MVSc, PhD, DACVPM Image credits: LinkedIn A comprehensive review of research underscores the widespread distribution of beta-lactamase resistance genes in Enterobacteriaceae across human, animal, and environmental sources in the United States. The study, which analyzed 335 articles published between 1981 and April 2022, provides critical insights into the molecular epidemiology of these […]
Possible Marburg in Tanzania – Level 1 – Level 1 – Practice Usual Precautions – Travel Health Notices | Travelers’ Health
Marburg virus disease (Marburg) is a rare and deadly disease that has, at times, caused outbreaks in several African countries. The disease is named after the city in Germany where it was first reported in 1967. Marburg is a viral hemorrhagic fever. Symptoms include fever, chills, headache, muscle aches, rash, chest pain, sore throat, nausea, […]
Treatment of Buschke-Löwenstein Tumor With Radiotherapy and Cemiplimab
This case report describes a woman in her late 60s with progressive enlarged painful groin masses spreading from the labia to the perianal area, bleeding, and weight loss. Source link
