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A CDC-journal serosurvey found PDCoV-neutralizing antibodies in 9 of 100 young people with near-daily swine contact versus 1 of 200 adults — the first US evidence of human exposure to this swine coronavirus.
A new CDC burden estimate attributes roughly 995,000 illnesses, 9,592 hospitalisations and 236 deaths a year to direct and indirect animal contact across seven pathogens, led by Campylobacter and Salmonella.
An outbreak investigation published by the CDC traces a 33-day family cluster of pneumonic plague in Fenoarivobe to a man first treated for malaria, with antibiotics reaching patients only in the fourth week.
A 28-year-old technician at a plague research institute in Irkutsk died on 2 October. WHO rates the risk low in Russia and very low in Europe, but has asked Russian authorities to clarify the cause of her pneumonia.
Genomic sequencing identified Haemophilus ducreyi — a bacterium known for a sexually transmitted infection — behind roughly 403 cases in children. Of 156 swabs tested, 61.5% were positive; no yaws was found.
A diagnostic study reports all 12 cat tissues and 11 of 15 rat tissues tested positive, with the highest viral loads in the brain — evidence small mammals may carry avian influenza.
A meta-analysis of 247 studies across 41 countries pooled a 15.3% detection rate, rising to 38% in fish and seafood markets and running highest across South-East Asia.
A new model built on rare donor-transmitted infections estimates China detected 29% and the United States 6% of their rabies deaths, implying hundreds go uncounted each year even where the disease seems rare.
Human cases are a rounding error against the 3.5 million of the 1980s. But 684 animal infections, most of them dogs in Chad, now stand between the programme and eradication.
WHO validated Bhutan's elimination of dog-transmitted human rabies, a disease almost always fatal once symptoms appear. The country has recorded zero such deaths since June 2023.
The patient had spent months in Senegal and was found to carry the poultry-adapted virus alongside tuberculosis. WHO rates the public risk as low and traced no onward spread.
The AVENIR trial met its resistance endpoint in the gut but not the nose: giving the antibiotic to under-fives lifted macrolide resistance 16% above placebo communities.
The patient drank raw date palm sap through most of January. Thirty-five contacts are under monitoring, and the six who developed symptoms have tested negative.
WHO reports 404 confirmed human cases across the two countries in six weeks. The case fatality ratio is 30% in Mauritania and 7.8% in Senegal — a gap that says more about detection than about the virus.
Three of the four cases drank raw date palm sap in the usual December-April window. The fourth, a child who fell ill in August, did not — and the source remains under investigation.
Five cutaneous anthrax cases, one fatal, were confirmed in Mukdahan province in May 2025, all tied to the home slaughter of infected cows — a textbook zoonotic spillover.