Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

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.

An unknown illness has killed over 50 people in northwestern Congo, according to doctors on the ground and the World Health Organization on Monday.

Researchers from Cleveland Clinic’s Genome Center have outlined the pathway human herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV1) can use to contribute to Alzheimer’s disease in aging brains. In a report published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia, investigators also share two FDA-approved, commercially available drugs that reverse this pathway in a laboratory setting.

Medical doctors in infectious disease clinics were significantly more likely to be infected with the SARS-CoV2 virus than doctors with less patient contact. This is shown in a new study at Umeå University. One in five doctors working in infectious disease clinics were infected during the first and second waves of the pandemic in 2020.

A study recently published in Management Science examines the impact of stay-at-home orders implemented by U.S. counties in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Conducted by economists at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, the research reveals that SHOs not only reduced mobility in counties where they were implemented but also had significant “spillover effects” in neighboring counties.