Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Upcoming spring break trips will give the current measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico a chance to grow, making it particularly important for people who are behind on their shots to catch up now, Colorado’s state epidemiologist said.

Five years ago, on a late Monday evening in March, Gov. Brian Kemp and his top health aides hastily called a news conference at the Capitol to make an announcement that would touch every person in Georgia.

A patient who came to a hospital emergency room in Montgomery County is Pennsylvania’s first confirmed measles case this year amid a national surge of the highly contagious virus, according to health officials.

Several weeks ago, I visited a local NHS urgent care center with my toddler on what might be called a semi-annual pilgrimage related to having a child in nursery. Owing to what is now a typical three- or four-hour wait, during which he made a recovery, I had the time to notice the hospital’s waiting room cleaning practices. They amounted to someone pushing a mop around the floor and in the process moving, rather than removing, various fluids and items that had probably amassed over the preceding several hours.

A 4-year-old child became the second person to die of Ebola in Uganda, the World Health Organization said Saturday, in a setback for health officials who had hoped for a quick end to the outbreak that began at the end of January.

Your immune system harbors a lifetime’s worth of information about threats it’s encountered—a biological Rolodex of baddies. Often the perpetrators are viruses and bacteria you’ve conquered; others are undercover agents like vaccines given to trigger protective immune responses or even red herrings in the form of healthy tissue caught in immunological crossfire.

Authorities investigating the deaths of at least 60 people in northwestern Congo suspect the water source in one of the areas may have been contaminated, the World Health Organization said Friday. But the agency said it’s too early for any definitive conclusion.

Rare eye diseases are the leading cause of untreatable blindness in Europe and affect people of all ages. The RESTORE VISION scientific team has identified seven rare ocular conditions that impact the cornea and the rest of the ocular surface. “With a comprehensive approach, we aim to restore the normal function of the immune, vascular, and nervous systems of the ocular surface by studying existing drugs while also developing new, accessible treatments,” says Juana Gallar, a professor at UMH who leads the project and the Ocular Neurobiology Laboratory at the IN.

The number of people with measles in Texas increased to 146 in an outbreak that led this week to the death of an unvaccinated school-aged child, health officials said Friday.

Hours after billionaire Elon Musk told the president’s Cabinet that the U.S. had quickly restored canceled aid to fight Ebola in Uganda, the Trump administration officially ended at least four of five U.S.-funded Ebola contracts in the country.