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A surveillance analysis of WHO data from January 2024 to February 2026 tracks the clade Ib emergency from declaration to its end, and finds reported spread continued after the emergency was formally lifted.
A modelling study of Koungou village, calibrated to daily cases by vaccination status, estimates CVD 103-HgR prevented 87% of cholera and averted hundreds of cases — a first real-world test of a challenge-trial vaccine.
In 544 pregnant women followed across Rio de Janeiro state, adverse maternal outcomes hit 18% of confirmed Oropouche infections versus 7% without, with fetal loss and haemorrhage risks roughly tripled.
The infections, detected across six regions between January and early October, had no links to one another. Globally MERS-CoV has caused 2,643 cases and 965 deaths since 2012.
A case-control study of young children during a statewide whooping-cough outbreak found three or more DTaP doses cut the odds of pertussis by more than 25-fold against unvaccinated peers.
A CDC field report documents the territory's largest dengue wave in over a decade, driven almost entirely by DENV-2, with one death — the first dengue-associated death there since 2005.
A Quezon City hospital reviewed 20 children admitted with subacute sclerosing panencephalitis over 16 years. A quarter arrived in 2022, and the timing points back to the 2018–2019 measles outbreak.
A four-branch surveillance study in children found 2024 Mycoplasma pneumoniae incidence of 546 per 100,000, and genome sequencing showed four new subclades had replaced older lineages by mid-2024.
A Valencia hospital reviewed 108 patients with Candidozyma auris candidemia over eight years. Metastatic infection occurred in 22 percent and roughly doubled the risk of death at 60 and 90 days.
A national surveillance study found 415 children under 15 among Sierra Leone's 2024–2025 clade IIb mpox cases — three died, three-quarters needed hospital care, and household contact was the top documented exposure.
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.
Surveillance data show 252 locally acquired dengue cases in the Tampa Bay area by 26 September, 223 of them in Hillsborough County, where an 80-year-old woman has died. Three counties have declared emergencies.
A nationwide Brazilian cohort of 4.1 million children found that babies exposed to Zika in the womb but without congenital Zika syndrome had the same pneumonia-hospitalisation risk as unexposed children.
A first-of-its-kind report from Uzbekistan puts the case-fatality rate at 8.3%. The one sign that predicted death was present in just 3.1% of patients — a warning against waiting for it.
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.
Nearly a third of 68 sampled cases carried the mutation that blocks first-line antibiotics — and the resistant strain hit infants under six months hardest, during an outbreak that reached 4,976 cases and 76 deaths.
In Scottish hospital data, RSV was recorded about 2.3 times as often as human metapneumovirus, but patients admitted with either virus were similarly ill — and the analysis was funded by a maker of RSV products.
Surveillance across seven countries detected Shigella by PCR in 20.0% of diarrhoea episodes in toddlers, and found ciprofloxacin resistance reaching 37.2% — a warning for a disease with no licensed vaccine.
National surveillance recorded 60,826 cases in Japan by July 2025 — about 15 times the previous year's 4054 — concentrated in school-age children, while four other countries had already peaked and declined.
An MMWR report describes 249 cases statewide, 72% of outbreak patients hospitalised and no deaths, and urges vaccination before travel as exposures continue into 2026.
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 peer-reviewed national analysis puts a figure on this spring's resurgence: 8,834 laboratory-confirmed cases, more than 70% of patients hospitalised, and incidence highest in Dhaka division.
A national cohort of 3,584,203 people found that 96.4% of those re-tested still had a viral load below 1000 copies per mL a year later — the threshold at which HIV is not transmitted sexually.
A bird-flu virus from British Columbia poultry carried the H275Y mutation that blunts Tamiflu and peramivir. In the lab it stayed vulnerable to zanamivir and baloxavir — and was less virulent in mice.
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 national survey of more than 120,000 children put combined prevalence at 5.4% and heavy-intensity infection below WHO's 1% elimination threshold, after ten years of preventive chemotherapy.
Drawing on households across every province and region, researchers estimate a stillbirth rate of 30.5 per 1,000 births and a maternal mortality ratio of 176 per 100,000 — both above national and 2030 targets.
A review of the Africa CDC and WHO response reports 49,803 confirmed cases and 240 deaths across 28 countries, US$977 million mobilised, and just 32% of 3.1 million delivered vaccine doses administered.
Measles incidence edged up and rubella more than doubled across 22 countries in 2023–2024, with outbreaks in Yemen, Iraq and Afghanistan driving the trend as second-dose coverage stalled.
Across 41 hospitals in 19 Asian countries, ACORN-HAI found 73.7% of severe bloodstream and ventilator infections were drug-resistant, and 37.7% of those patients died within 28 days.
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.
Analysing 32,294 viral sequences from 16,428 people, Swiss researchers found 23 fast-growing clusters drove a third of recent transmission growth — evidence molecular surveillance could target the remaining chains.
An observational study across four DR Congo outbreak sites estimates that a third of positive mpox PCR results reflect environmental viral DNA, not infection — and that a stricter cutoff fixes most of it.
A dormant breach-notification rule became an enforcement tool in 2023, when the FTC fined GoodRx and BetterHelp for sharing users' health data with ad platforms. A 2024 rule change locked apps into its reach.
Abilify MyCite embeds a sensor in an antipsychotic tablet to log each dose to an app. Nearly a decade on, its own FDA label still says it has not been shown to improve whether patients take their medicine.
A national analysis of 2020–2025 surveillance found a case fatality rate of 15.5% that never improved, a season tied to heat and rainfall, and a falling share of suspected cases ever confirmed.
Bangladesh was validated in 2023 as the first country to eliminate visceral leishmaniasis as a public health problem; India is nearing the same threshold, even as post-kala-azar skin cases climb.
WHO flagged a drifted A(H3N2) subclade K in December; the first 2025-2026 effectiveness data, from 1.4 million US veterans, put overall protection near 22% and protection against hospitalisation near 32%.
A cohort at Kilifi County Hospital found RSV pneumonia killed 2.4% of admitted infants across 25 seasons, with no decline; severe undernutrition and congenital heart disease marked the highest risk.
A review of 23 women's health apps found 87% shared user data with outside firms. The main US rule that covers them orders breach disclosure — it does not stop the sharing.
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 Timor-Leste's elimination of trachoma, the last suspected focus in its South-East Asia Region. A 2025 survey of 4,949 young children found no transmission requiring intervention.
An interim report in NEJM Evidence links the parasitic outbreak to iceberg lettuce and one restaurant chain, with cases spread across most of the state.
Severe dehydration from diarrhoeal disease and sepsis can shut down the kidneys. In a health system with little dialysis, a review argues this is a preventable driver of death that surveillance is missing.
WHO recorded serogroup W135 disease in pilgrims returning from Saudi Arabia in early 2025. A modelling study estimates high vaccination coverage would cut expected cases by more than 80%.
Tungiasis, on WHO's neglected-disease list since 2021 but never quantified, costs up to 379,645 healthy life-years a year — rising to 575,298 once its complications are counted.
A facility-based study of 5,053 infants finds undernutrition begins earlier than the age group nutrition programmes usually screen — and that weight-for-age caught far more of it than arm-circumference tape.
One study screened 916,904 acute-care visits to find which diagnoses actually rise with extreme heat. Another, in Phoenix, asks a prior question: who calls for help at all.
National surveillance shows no decline from 2020 to 2024, with one in five patients already disabled at diagnosis — a marker of late detection even as the global burden falls.
Papers in WHO EMRO's journal document multidrug-resistant hospital infections in Saudi Arabia, unaffordable injectable antibiotics in Iran, and antibiotic use without prescription in displaced Syrians.
A study of 806 suspected cases found nearly a quarter were confirmed Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever, all the main risk factors tied to livestock handling — as warming expands the range of the ticks that carry it.
Italy logged 296 locally acquired cases in 2024, a European record. Transmission rose 19.8% per 1°C of warming, and modelling puts most of France in range for the mosquito that carries it this century.
Before October 2023, Palestinian health authorities had documented 50 people living with HIV in Gaza. A viewpoint argues the collapse of testing and treatment has since erased that count entirely.
A registry analysis of Abyan Governorate from 2020 to 2024 puts numbers on a vaccine-preventable disease that returned as immunisation coverage fell — with the heaviest toll among children aged 5 to 9.
Adult TB incidence and mortality are projected to fall 46% and 54% by 2030, short of the 80% and 90% goals. Wider symptom-driven testing matters most to closing the gap, the analysis suggests.
A surveillance analysis of Sistan and Baluchestan finds confirmed and probable cases falling from a 2019 peak, with an 11% fatality rate and a clear winter clustering.
An analysis of a decade of surveillance data shows the system leans heavily on hospitals and misses cases in the community — the weakness that lets measles circulate undetected between outbreaks.
A narrative review synthesising WHO, UNRWA and Gaza health-ministry field data reports the re-emergence of hepatitis A and poliovirus, over 200,000 diarrhoeal cases, and drug-resistant hospital pathogens.
A rescreen of 1,000 acute febrile illness samples from Loreto found the virus circulating endemically rather than in a single outbreak, including in a remote riverine community.
Surveillance data show reported measles cases from Tigray collapsed during the 2020–2022 war; afterward the median age of infection fell to five years and the odds a case was unvaccinated stayed sharply raised.
A community study of 2,340 residents, run after the conflict that wrecked the region's health system, found presumptive tuberculosis above 10% in both town and countryside.
Sixteen years of PCR-confirmed data show Buruli ulcer incidence down nearly 80%. Over the same period open water surfaces shrank 25–30% and mean air temperature rose by more than 1°C.
Two 2026 papers describe the same shift: rural incidence now exceeds urban in some years, the peak has slid to October and November, and one in six hospitalised patients progressed to severe disease.
Maricopa County runs some of the most detailed heat mortality surveillance in the US. A distributed lag model applied to the same five years put the toll far higher — and the gap is the method, not a scandal.
Across 84,348 hospital admissions, 19.8% of children had severe anaemia; as malaria receded the burden moved to older children, and severe anaemia doubled the odds of dying.
A WHO global update logged 79 human infections in the Americas and 16 confirmed cases in Africa by late May, with the virus surfacing in areas long considered free of it.
A scoping review of 171 studies found output peaked in 2019, fell during COVID, and left the genomic surveillance of a coronavirus with pandemic potential thinly covered.
A 23-year genetic-network analysis of 5,094 cases identified 107 molecular super-spreaders, mostly men aged 50-69, with 94.4% living within 2 km of major transport routes.
A national database of ~90% of public facilities found all-cause diarrhoea incidence in under-fives dropped 50% and hospitalisations 58% after 2020, with no rise in intussusception.
An 8-year-old boy had brain inflammation with no respiratory symptoms. Every respiratory, blood and rectal sample tested negative; the virus was in his cerebrospinal fluid alone.
A CDC surveillance summary puts 2024 at 359% above the 2010–2023 annual average. The 2.8% that were locally acquired are the part that changes what mosquito control has to plan for.
WHO's latest mpox report shows global case counts holding steady, but flags a Sindh province cluster where nearly all deaths were in babies under six months old.
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 surveillance behind the WHO-verified milestone is now published: no infective blackflies at any monitored site, and no infection among 16,406 children tested.
WHO's year-end tally records 614,828 cases across 33 countries. December brought a decline — and the reported figures are known to be a fraction of the true burden.
Nineteen MERS cases were reported worldwide in 2025, seventeen of them in Saudi Arabia. The two in France are the first infections detected outside the region in six years.
A Washington State adult died on 21 November after infection with an avian influenza subtype never before found in a person. Contact tracing found no onward spread. Europe is having a record autumn bird season.
Across 11 surveillance sites in sub-Saharan Africa, nighttime heatwave mortality risk rose between 2005-2010 and 2011-2015 — the opposite of the adaptation trend reported in wealthy countries.
New EGASP surveillance data released for World AMR Awareness Week show cefixime resistance up from 1.7% to 11% and ciprofloxacin resistance at 95% across 12 reporting countries.
A UNRWA surveillance dataset of 265,974 arm-circumference measurements shows wasting rising during blockade, falling during ceasefire, then rising again — an unusually direct record of cause and effect.
Thirty-seven had the necrotising form, of whom 41% died. Just 16% of vaccine-eligible children with encephalopathy had received that season's flu vaccine. There is no national surveillance for the condition.
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.
Kerala's ninth Nipah outbreak since 2018 produced four unlinked cases between April and July, suggesting separate spillovers from bats rather than a chain of human transmission.
WHO has logged 11 laboratory-confirmed human A(H5N1) infections in Cambodia between 1 January and 1 July, including six deaths. Every case had handled or culled sick poultry.
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.
Two healthy children in Lae tested positive for cVDPV2 genetically linked to an Indonesian outbreak, in a country where coverage for a third oral polio dose was 44% in 2024.