Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases

Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases News

U.N. Employee in Eastern Congo Tests Positive for Ebola - U.N. Memo A United Nations employee in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has tested positive for Ebola, the first such incident during the current outbreak, the head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission (MONUSCO) there said on Friday in a letter to staff.
Reuters Health Information, October 15, 2018
Asymptomatic Visceral Leishmaniasis Common in Operation Iraqi Freedom Soldiers As many as one in five U.S. soldiers deployed in Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) have serological evidence of asymptomatic visceral Leishmania infantum infection (AVL), researchers report.
Reuters Health Information, October 15, 2018

Recognition and Management of Drug-Resistant Typhoid Fever Know the signs and symptoms as well as risk factors for typhoid fever, and which tests to order when the infection is suspected.
CDC Expert Commentary, October 8, 2018
Famous Names in Medicine We've all heard of them--Johns Hopkins, Henry Gray, Walter Reed--but who were they, and why do their names have a place in the history of medicine?
Medscape, September 13, 2018

Enterovirus A71 Neurologic Disease in Children
Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report, October 10, 2018
State, Local, and Territorial Zika Preparedness Activities
Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report, October 4, 2018
Antinuclear Antibodies in Autoimmune Diseases
Laboratory Medicine, October 3, 2018
Fatal V. anguillarum Infection in an Immunocompromised Patient
Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report, September 28, 2018
Contraceptive Use in the Context of Public Health Emergencies
Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report, September 14, 2018

Death From Transfusion-Transmitted Anaplasmosis
Emerging Infectious Diseases, October 10, 2018
Novel Enterobacter Lineage as Cause of Nosocomial Outbreak
Emerging Infectious Diseases, October 3, 2018
Toxoplasmosis in Transplant Recipients
Emerging Infectious Diseases, September 26, 2018