Infectious Diseases News

• Novel Coronavirus a 'Tremendous Public Health Threat,' CDC Says With 34 confirmed cases of the virus in the US now, the CDC is preparing for potential community spread of 2019-nCoV in the US and is not ruling out the future need for school and business closures.
  Medscape Medical News, February 21, 2020
• Novel Coronavirus: Study Suggests Multiple Shedding Routes The novel coronavirus responsible for the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak may shed through respiratory, fecal–oral, or body fluid routes, new data suggest.
  Medscape Medical News, February 21, 2020
• HPV Biomarkers Linked to Improved Survival With Esophageal Dysplasia, Adenocarcinoma Human papillomavirus (HPV) positivity and HPV biomarkers are associated with improved survival in adults with Barrett high-grade dysplasia (HGD) and esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC), according to a new study.
  Reuters Health Information, February 20, 2020
• Vaccine Schedule Not Followed for One Third of Children in US Even if children ultimately get caught up on their vaccines after early delays, they remain susceptible to vaccine-preventable diseases for longer right when they're most vulnerable to complications.
  Medscape Medical News, February 21, 2020
• Kuwait Airways Suspends Flights to Iran Amid Fears From Coronavirus Outbreak
  Reuters Health Information, February 20, 2020
• 'We're Not the Walking Dead': Americans Face Coronavirus Quarantine Stigma When Esther Tebeka, one of more than 1,000 Americans evacuated from China due to the coronavirus outbreak, ended her 14-day quarantine with no signs of the disease, she thought she could get on with her life.
  Reuters Health Information, February 20, 2020
• WHO Says No Time for Complacency as China Coronavirus Cases Fall
  Reuters Health Information, February 20, 2020
• China Lab Says Conspiracy Theories Hurting Efforts to Curb Virus An outbreak of disinformation in China and elsewhere has hurt global efforts to combat the new coronavirus, said a specialist infectious disease lab located at the epicentre of the epidemic - and at the heart of a number of conspiracy theories.
  Reuters Health Information, February 20, 2020
• Two Passengers From Coronavirus-Hit Cruise Ship in Japan Die, Authorities Defend Quarantine Two elderly passengers became the first people from aboard a cruise ship moored near Tokyo to die of the coronavirus, the Japanese government said on Thursday, as hundreds more passengers disembarked after two weeks' quarantine.
  Reuters Health Information, February 20, 2020
• New Coronavirus Spreads More Like Flu Than SARS -Chinese Study Scientists in China who studied nose and throat swabs from 18 patients infected with the new coronavirus say it behaves much more like influenza than other closely related viruses, suggesting it may spread even more easily than previously believed.
  Reuters Health Information, February 20, 2020
• WHO: Need to Seize 'Window of Opportunity' to Contain Coronavirus The WHO's director-general said medical facilities in Wuhan have regained the capability of checking COVID-19 cases with lab tests, detailing a "signficant decline in newly reported cases" in China.
  Medscape Medical News, February 21, 2020
• 16 Cruise Ship Evacuees Being Moved to US Hospitals Eleven Americans who were brought to the U.S. from a quarantined cruise ship have been moved to hospitals, because delayed Japanese test results showed they had the new coronavirus, officials said Thursday.
  Associated Press, February 21, 2020
• Young MSM Know Too Little About Cancer-Causing HPV Many young men who have sex with men are unaware of their increased risk for contracting human papillomavirus (HPV) and of the vaccine that can prevent these infections, a small New York City survey suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, February 19, 2020
• Malaysian Firm Offers AI-Based Profiling of Chinese Visitors for Virus Malaysia's MYEG Services Bhd said on Wednesday it had developed a coronavirus risk-profiling system for visitors from China and was offering the artificial intelligence-based service to the governments of Malaysia and the Philippines.
  Reuters Health Information, February 19, 2020
• Global Efforts to Develop Vaccines, Drugs to Fight the Coronavirus Researchers and drug companies are scrambling to develop vaccines and treatments to fight the new coronavirus that emerged in central China in December and has spread to more than two dozen countries, killing more than 2,000 people.
  Reuters Health Information, February 19, 2020
• What, Us Worry? 80-Yr-Old U.S. Couple Smiles Through Virus Quarantine
  Reuters Health Information, February 19, 2020
• Speed Science: The Risks of Swiftly Spreading Coronavirus Research
  Reuters Health Information, February 19, 2020
• China HIV Patients Risk Running Out of AIDS Drugs in Days -UNAIDS HIV patients in China risk running out of life-saving AIDS drugs because quarantines and lockdowns aimed at containing the coronavirus disease outbreak mean they cannot replenish vital medicine stocks, United Nations AIDS agency said on Wednesday.
  Reuters Health Information, February 19, 2020
• Passengers Depart Coronavirus Cruise Ship at Last; Japan's Effort Under Fire Hundreds of people began disembarking a cruise ship in Japan on Wednesday after being held on board for more than two weeks under quarantine, as criticism mounted of Japan's handling of the biggest coronavirus outbreak outside China.
  Reuters Health Information, February 19, 2020
• Severe Infection Tied to Substance-Induced Psychosis Severe infection is linked to an increased risk of substance-induced psychosis. However, hepatitis is the most strongly linked and the only infection tied to schizophrenia conversion.
  Medscape Medical News, February 20, 2020