#India reports 2 confirmed #Nipah #virus cases in West Bengal, both healthcare workers.
The case fatality ratio in outbreaks across Bangladesh, India, Malaysia, and Singapore range from 40% to 75%, depending on local capabilities for early detection & clinical management.
www.who.int/emergencies/...
United Kingdom Loses #Measles Elimination Status
The elimination status was removed based on data showing sustained #transmission in 2024 with an incidence of 51.3 per million.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Rare #Rabies Transmission Tied To Organ #Transplant
A rare case of human-to-human rabies transmission has been linked to solid organ transplantation, according to a newly published CDC report (MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2025;74[39]:600-605).
www.idse.net/Zoonotic-Dis...
#Ethiopia experienced its first-ever outbreak of #Marburg virus disease in late 2025, which has now been officially declared over on 26 January 2026.
• Total cases: 14 laboratory-confirmed cases.
• Deaths: 9 (case fatality rate ≈ 64%).
www.who.int/emergencies/...
MERS-CoV number of cases and deaths Global
#MERS- CoV, 2025
Since the beginning of 2025 and as of 21 December 2025, a total of 19 cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome #coronavirus, including 4 deaths have been reported. Of the 19 cases, 17 were reported by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and 2 from France.
www.who.int/emergencies/...
🥳 Guinea and Kenya eliminated sleeping sickness.
🥳 Niger became the first African country to eliminate river blindness.
🥳 Georgia, Suriname and Timor-Leste were certified malaria-free.
🥳 Brazil eliminated mother-to-child transmission of #HIV.
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"Dive into 'The Plains of Passage' by Jean M. Auel!
Ayla and Jondalar trek across prehistoric european steppes in an odyssey of love, danger, and discovery.
📖🌍 #JeanMAuel #PrehistoricNovel"
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Type III MINOCYCLINE-INDUCED HYPERPIGMENTATION
The minocycline was discontinued. At a follow-up visit 8 months later, the facial hyperpigmentation remained unchanged.
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMicm2111130
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#medicine #dermatology
A 75-YO♀️ 4 year of minocycline for chronic osteomielitis: a 3-year of gradually darkening facial skin, diffuse blue–gray #hyperpigmentation on her face & ears, with sparing of an area beneath her right eye, where she had received a skin graft 6 years before
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DOI: 10.1056/NEJMicm2111130
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Detection of wild poliovirus type 1 in environmental sample in Germany
linked to WPV1 last identified from an environmental sample collected in Afghanistan.
No associated cases of paralysis have been detected in Germany.
www.who.int/europe/news/...
The patient remained asymptomatic.
Buffy coat smears were repeated at weekly intervals until 28 days had passed since the fly bite.
Smears showed no parasites, and the skin lesion, considered to be an uninfected tsetse fly bite, healed within the subsequent 2 weeks.
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doi.org/10.1016/j.id...
Two principal concerns:
a) the skin lesion represented a trypanosomal chancre at the site of a tsetse fly bite, and
b) the traveler could be incubating the East African tripanosomiasis caused by Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense
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#microbiology #IDSky
- Fly bites,
- skin lesion in an asymptomatic traveler returned from Tanzania and
- a buffy coat smear ➕
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doi.org/10.1016/j.id...
#parasitology #Medicine
Avian flu continues to impact birds across #Europe, with limited human transmission risk.
Surveillance and biosecurity remain crucial to control outbreaks.
More info: www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/avian-inf...
#AvianFlu #PublicHealth
A Pragmatic Trial of Glucocorticoids for Community-Acquired Pneumonia | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
“Hole-with-dot” sign: viable CYSTICERCI containing clear fluid and a scolex
SCOLEX of DISSEMINATED CYSTICERCOSIS
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doi.org/10.4269/ajtm...
#Medicine #parasitology
A 17-YO♂️ from Indian: 5 years of episodes of secondarily generalized tonic-clonic seizures.
MR: “hole-with-dot” sign in the brain parenchyma, scalp and facial muscles, and the tongue.
Two buff-colored translucent conjuctival cysts in his left eye
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doi.org/10.4269/ajtm...
#IDSky #neurology
#Chikungunya #virus disease- Global situation
Per available data from January to September 2025, 263 592 suspected and 181 679 confirmed CHIKV disease cases and 155 CHIKV disease-related deaths have been reported globally.
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www.who.int/emergencies/...
The #Global Burden of #Chagas Disease Study 2023 #updated estimates show decreasing prevalence and incidence in endemic countries, highlighting the importance of socioeconomic development, housing conditions, and vector-control policies.
#ArtificialIntelligence in Infection Surveillance:
Data Integration, Applications and Future Directions
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #OpenAccess #infectiousdiseases #MicroSky #IDSky #MedSky
Between 20 September and 30 October 2025, a total of 404 confirmed human cases of Rift Valley fever (RVF), including 42 deaths, were reported by national health authorities in two West African countries: #Mauritania and #Senegal
www.who.int/emergencies/...
ORF NODULE or milkers' nodule caused by a parapoxvirus, from the Poxviridae family.
5-15 days after inoculation, one or several nodules, typically on the hand, with a surrounding erythematous ring.
Resolves spontaneously in 6-8 weeks
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#medicine #dermatology
10-year-old boy ♂️, handles sheep: nodule lesion in target pattern for 3 days, and another erythematous maculopapular lesion at a different stage of evolution; in the previous week, ipsilateral axillary lymphadenopathy.
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#pediatrics #infectiousdiseases
First clinical pregnancy following #AI-based microfluidic #sperm detection and recovery in non-obstructive azoospermia - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Acute acalculous cholecystitis is seen infrequently in:
- critically ill patients with trauma, shock or burns.
- some viral infections, including Epstein–Barr virus, cytomegalovirus and dengue virus
EBV acute acalculous cholecystitis has a good prognosis.
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#gastroenterology #internalmedicine
Immunoglobulin Ig M and IgG antibodies + to Epstein–Barr virus viral capsid antigen ➕ and ➖ for antibodies to Epstein–Barr virus nuclear antigen
INFECTIOUS MONONUCLEOSIS with ACUTE ACALCULOSUS CHOLECYSTITIS
Her symptoms resolved within 7 days
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#Microbiology #Medicine
White arrows show enlarged spleen, black arrows show enlarged liver.
A 20-y-o♀️: sore throat, inflamed tonsils & 7 days of R upper quadrant pain; posterior cervical lymph nodes, &+ Murphy sign.
Leukocytosis &⏫liver enzymes.
CT: an enlarged gallbladder, thickened wall, pericholecystic fluid collection & hepatosplenomegaly. No stones
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doi.org/10.1503/cmaj...
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Typical of CREEPING ERUPTION, OR #CUTANEOUS #LARVA MIGRANS.
The patient was treated with albendazole. After 2 weeks, the lesion healed completely. No recurrence was seen at a 2-month follow-up visit.
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A 42-year-old man: a 1-month of an intensely pruritic, migratory, moving a few millimeters to a few centimeters daily, serpiginous, erythematous raised tract on his right foot eruption after a vacation in Nigeria.
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www.nejm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
#Dermatology #Medicine
