Infectious Disease News November 12, 2026: Ebola, measles, COVID and more
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Amesh Adalja
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Infectious disease MD (also CCM & EM) focused on pandemics, emerging infections, biosecurity, biotech
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“high-quality screening tests will become more affordable because of an agreement between the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), part of the World Health Organization (WHO) and Unitaid” cidrap.umn.edu/human-papillom…
www.cidrap.umn.edu HPV testing to become cheaper, more accessible in the Americas A new pricing agreement aims to improve access to high-quality cervical cancer screening for millions of women in Latin America and the Caribbean. “Union Farm Workers (UFW) posted a statement on X late Tuesday sounding the alarm on human cases of H5N1 in Yakima Valley dairy workers. The union said cases are being widely underreported in part because workers are often immigrants” cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influenz…
www.cidrap.umn.edu Oregon logs its first H5N1 case in cows; farmer’s union says human avian flu cases underreported in... “The team found that congenital syphilis rates increased from 16.0 per 100,000 birth hospitalizations in 2012 to 94.7 per 100,000 in 2022, a 5.9-fold increase. The estimated number of affected newborns rose from 597 to 3,325 over that period.”
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www.cidrap.umn.edu Congenital syphilis rates soared in US newborns from 2012 to 2022 “According to the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) latest global TB report, the 1.13 million deaths in 2025 mark a 4% reduction from 2024 and a 35% drop from 2015.” cidrap.umn.edu/tuberculosis/w…
www.cidrap.umn.edu WHO: Funding cuts threaten global progress against TB