Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases News

• Monkeypox DNA Found in Semen in Handful of Cases, Researchers Say Fragments of the monkeypox virus have been detected in semen in a handful of patients in Italy, raising questions over whether sexual transmission of the disease is a possibility, scientists said on Monday.
  Reuters Health Information, June 13, 2022
• Cholera and Other Diseases Could Kill Thousands in Ukraine's Mariupol: Mayor Cholera and other deadly diseases could kill thousands of people in the southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol as corpses lie uncollected and summer brings warmer weather, its mayor said on Friday.
  Reuters Health Information, June 10, 2022
• UK Says Mariupol at Risk of Cholera Outbreak Ukraine's southern city of Mariupol is at risk of a major cholera outbreak as medical services are likely already near collapse, Britain's defence ministry said on Friday.
  Reuters Health Information, June 10, 2022
• Takeda: Dengue Vaccine Candidate Works Without Big Safety Risks Takeda's TAK-003 dengue vaccine showed long-term efficacy and no antibody-dependent enhancement reactions in seronegative patients. It can be given without prior serologic testing.
  Medscape Medical News, June 09, 2022
• Test Makers Target Monkeypox Market as Cases Surge Diagnostic companies are racing to develop tests for monkeypox, hoping to tap into a new market as governments ramp up efforts to trace the world's first major outbreak of the viral infection outside of Africa.
  Reuters Health Information, June 03, 2022
• Developing World Should Reap Benefits of New Monkeypox Research, Experts Urge As cases of monkeypox in wealthier Western nations spark a flurry of scientific research to combat the outbreak, scientists are urging the world to make sure lower-income nations benefit from the fruits of that labor as well.
  Reuters Health Information, June 02, 2022
• Pathogens Jumping to Humans From Animals Becoming More Frequent, Warns WHO Outbreaks of endemic diseases such as monkeypox and lassa fever are becoming more persistent and frequent, the World Health Organization's emergencies director, Mike Ryan, warned on Wednesday.
  Reuters Health Information, June 01, 2022
• Nigeria CDC Has Confirmed 21 Monkeypox Cases This Year Nigeria has confirmed 21 cases of monkeypox since the start of the year with one death reported, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control said late on Sunday.
  Reuters Health Information, May 31, 2022
• Disease Experts Call on WHO, Governments for More Action on Monkeypox Some prominent infectious disease experts are pushing for faster action from global health authorities to contain a growing monkeypox outbreak that has spread to at least 20 countries.
  Reuters Health Information, May 31, 2022
• People Infected With Monkeypox Can Isolate at Home: UKHSA People infected with monkeypox can isolate at home, if they remain well enough, whilst following measures to limit close contact with others, the UKHSA said on Monday, as part of fresh guidance designed to curb the rise in cases of viral illness in the country.
  Reuters Health Information, May 30, 2022
• Monkeypox Outbreak Unlikely to Lead to Pandemic, WHO says The World Health Organization does not believe the monkeypox outbreak outside Africa will lead to a pandemic, an official said on Monday, adding it remains unclear if infected people who are not displaying symptoms can transmit the disease.
  Reuters Health Information, May 30, 2022
• Monkeypox Can Be Contained if We Act Now, WHO Says Countries should take quick steps to contain the spread of monkeypox and share data about their vaccine stockpiles, a senior World Health Organization official said on Friday.
  Reuters Health Information, May 27, 2022
• TB Still a Challenge in Canada's Indigenous Populations Tuberculosis rates among indigenous populations in Canada are significantly higher than those in the general population, but mitigation efforts are having an effect, say experts.
  Medscape Medical News, May 31, 2022
• WHO Asks Countries to Increase Surveillance for Monkeypox About 200 confirmed and more than 100 suspected cases of Monkeypox have been detected so far outside of the countries where it usually spreads, a World Health Organization official said on Thursday, urging countries to increase surveillance for the infectious disease.
  Reuters Health Information, May 26, 2022
• Focus on Antivirals, Vaccines as Monkeypox Continues As monkeypox outbreaks continue around the globe, the focus has turned to medications and vaccines. Health officials have their eye on stockpiles of smallpox drugs, which can also be used for monkeypox.
  Medscape Medical News, May 26, 2022
• Roche Develops Test Kits to Detect Monkeypox Virus Roche on Wednesday said the company and its unit have developed three test kits to detect the monkeypox virus, as the disease spreads in regions outside Africa, where the virus is not normally found.
  Reuters Health Information, May 25, 2022
• Davos Booster for $18 Billion Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria A global health fund has raised a third of the $18 billion it says is needed to reverse setbacks caused by the coronavirus pandemic and combat AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.
  Reuters Health Information, May 24, 2022
• It Took 35 Years to Get a Malaria Vaccine. Why? The parasite's complex biology played a role in the delay, but experts say there was also a lack of urgency and funding.
  Undark, May 25, 2022
• Wild Meat Markets Pose Disease Risk to People, Laos Study Finds Zoonotic diseases can spill over to people from markets selling infected wild animal meat. Can we prevent these?
  Medscape Medical News, May 25, 2022
• WHO Says No Evidence Monkeypox Virus Has Mutated The World Health Organization does not have evidence that the monkeypox virus has mutated, a senior executive at the UN agency said on Monday, noting the infectious disease that has been endemic in west and central Africa has tended not to change.
  Reuters Health Information, May 23, 2022