“While we do not have further updates to share on our regulatory plans in the US, keeping the investigational new drug application open allows us to continue conversations with FDA on potentially bringing Qdenga to the US market." 🦟 #IDSky #dengue @astmh.bsky.social www.healio.com/news/infecti...

📝 For the first time in 17 years, physicians and researchers have published updated guidance for infection prevention and control practices and programs in U.S. nursing homes. #IDSky #MedSky @sheaepi.bsky.social @idsainfo.bsky.social @uofmcriisplab.bsky.social www.healio.com/news/infecti...

“This loss represents a setback, but it’s also reversible." Endemic measles returns to the Americas ... again. 👇🏻 #IDSky #MedSky #PedSky #Measles www.healio.com/news/infecti...

🚨 PAHO: Americas can no longer be declared free of #measles based on a large outbreak in Canada that has lasted longer than a year, one of the ways a country and region can lose its measles elimination status. Story soon, but here's the preview we wrote last week: www.healio.com/news/infecti...

🍝 Six people have died and 25 have been hospitalized in a multistate Listeria outbreak linked to several pasta products, including frozen and refrigerated meals sold at popular grocery store chains. Details of recall at link below 👇🏻 #IDSky #MedSky #GastroSky www.healio.com/news/infecti...

🐿️ An investigation of six cases of borealpox — previously called Alaskapox — revealed that the virus is likely being spread to people from small mammals in Alaska, including voles and shrews. #IDSky #MedSky #VoleSky @gohealio.bsky.social www.healio.com/news/infecti...

🌎 A commission in charge of monitoring efforts to eliminate measles from the Americas could vote this week to revoke the region’s measles-free status based on a large ongoing outbreak in Canada. #IDSky #MedSky #PedSky @gohealio.bsky.social www.healio.com/news/infecti...

Have you heard the news? Healio just launched our own AI for physicians!📱✨ Healio AI is the next evolution of trusted medical intelligence. It delivers real-time, expert-verified clinical insights, designed specifically for health care professionals.🩺 Ask a question today! ➡️ www.healio.com/ai

📰 Site news: Healio launches generative AI assistant built on trusted medical sources. #MedSky @idsainfo.bsky.social @ameracadpeds.bsky.social www.healio.com/news/nephrol...

🎧 NEW "PHYSICIANARY" EPISODE 🎧 🎙️ AAP President Susan Kressly, MD, joined our Hansa Bhargava, MD, for a discussion on tackling disinformation in medicine. @ameracadpeds.bsky.social @gohealio.bsky.social #IDSky #MedSky #PedSky www.healio.com/news/primary...

Currently available medications could be enough to end the #HIV epidemic in the US, provided people can access and afford for them. But the country needs more HIV docs. A lot more. From #IDWeek2025 👇🏻 With a perspective from @aadiamd.bsky.social. #IDSky #HIVSky www.healio.com/news/infecti...

🪝 We love a #HookedOnID with a dateline. With a slight name change, here's the latest "Hooked on ID(Week)" with Pitt's Yohei Doi, MD, PhD, #IDWeek2025 chair for @idsainfo.bsky.social. #IDSky www.healio.com/news/infecti...

“We thought our findings were reassuring for mothers and providers that either product — whether administered alone or in combination — is safe and provides high antibody levels to the babies." 👨🏻‍💻 #IDWeek2025 💉 #IDSky 👶🏻 #PedsSky 🥼 #MedSky www.healio.com/news/pediatr...

There is more evidence that #shingles vaccination significantly decreases the risk for heart disease, dementia and death among people aged 50 years or older with herpes zoster infection, according to data presented at #IDWeek2025. 💉 #IDSky 🥼 #MedSky www.healio.com/news/infecti...

Mortality attributed to C. difficile infection has declined in the US but is more common among whites, females and people in metropolitan areas, according to data presented at #IDWeek2025. @idsainfo.bsky.social 🗣️ With a perspective from @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social 👇🏻 www.healio.com/news/infecti...

🦟 A New York resident has tested positive for chikungunya in what health officials said is the first locally acquired case of the mosquito-borne disease in the state’s history — and first in the United States since 2019. www.healio.com/news/infecti...

The Trump administration reinstated hundreds of CDC staffers who were mistakenly laid off last week due to what an HHS official confirmed was a “glitch in the system.” www.healio.com/news/infecti...

🏥 Shared washrooms “should prompt consideration for similar control measures that we already employ for exposures in shared rooms, to prevent the spread of respiratory viruses.” www.healio.com/news/infecti...

“My termination, unfortunately, shows that the leaders of HHS and the National Institutes of Health do not share my commitment to scientific integrity and public health." Details 👇🏻 www.healio.com/news/infecti...

🔐 More than 32,000 HHS staff will be furloughed during the #shutdown — or about 41% of the nation’s federal health care workforce. #MedSky www.healio.com/news/infecti...

"What surprised the researchers was that videos containing misinformation averaged 2 1/2 times as many views as evidence-based videos." From #AAP2025 in Denver 👇 @ameracadpeds.bsky.social #MedSky #IDSky #PedsSky www.healio.com/news/pediatr...

🧫 The CDC recently made major cuts to a program that for decades has monitored foodborne illnesses through a partnership between federal agencies and state health departments. www.healio.com/news/infecti...

"In a disorganized start to the second day of their meeting, members of the ACIP also reversed a vote they made the previous evening that preserved some children’s access to a vaccine that the panel had just voted not to recommend." #IDSky #MedSky www.healio.com/news/pediatr...

💉 CDC advisors say COVID shots should require talk with doctor. ❓ But also: Details of a strange vote (which failed) that would have recommended COVID-19 vaccines require a prescription, something the ACIP does not control. More coming soon: www.healio.com/news/infecti...

🏆 Emmy wins for ‘The Pitt’ feel personal for health care professionals "Our emergency medicine group chats lit up like we had just won the Super Bowl." 💻 @owaisdurrani.bsky.social @rdglatter.bsky.social #MedTwitter www.healio.com/news/psychia...

"Robust scientific evidence and safety data have unequivocally shown that universal birth dose HBV vaccination saves lives and is safe to administer in newborns." 🗣️ New editorial up on the site ahead of this week's #ACIP meeting. #IDSky #MedSky www.healio.com/news/pediatr...

On the agenda for this week's 2-day ACIP meeting, which starts tomorrow: 💉 MMRV vaccination 💉 Hepatitis B birth dose 💉 COVID-19 vaccines “I’m hoping that they listen to the experts, but I guess we’ll just have to see what happens.” www.healio.com/news/infecti...

💉 The US is losing its only dengue vaccine. What now? #IDSky #MedSky www.healio.com/news/infecti...

🚨 An #Ebola virus #outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has doubled in size and spread in the province where it started, raising fears of cross-border spillover into neighboring #Angola, a health official said. #DRC #IDsky www.healio.com/news/infecti...

🙀 The identification of a rabid feral #cat, part of an unmanaged colony of approximately 20 cats, led to three people receiving #rabies postexposure prophylaxis after being attacked by the cat. www.healio.com/news/infecti...

☝️ A single-dose benzathine #penicillin G was just as effective as the standard three doses for treating patients with early #syphilis, regardless of the patient’s #HIV status. www.healio.com/news/infecti...

💉 Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, MD, PhD, said Wednesday that the state will work to “end all vaccine mandates,” including for children. @gohealio.bsky.social spoke w/ J. Glenn Morris, MD, MPH, TM, and @pauloffit.bsky.social about the change. www.healio.com/news/pediatr...

🚨 Health officials in the DRC have declared an #Ebola outbreak in Kasai province. As of Thursday, 28 suspected cases and 15 deaths have been reported. #IDsky #MEDsky #GlobalHealth Here's the full story from @caitstulpin.bsky.social 👇 www.healio.com/news/infecti...

👍Over-the-counter #PrEP could help expand access to #HIV prevention outside of clinics, a survey suggests. @caitstulpin.bsky.social spoke to @harvardmed.bsky.social’s Lauren Violette, PhD, MPH, about the survey's results, which showed support for OTC PrEp. www.healio.com/news/infecti...

💊 The FDA accepted a new drug application from Shionogi to use ensitrelvir, a daily oral antiviral, as post-exposure prophylaxis for #COVID19. Data presented earlier this year showed it’s promise as #PEP. www.healio.com/news/infecti...

💉 The FDA has approved updated COVID-19 vaccines for the 2025-2026 respiratory disease season, but with limitations not seen in previous years. @gohealio.bsky.social spoke with @ameshaa.bsky.social and @pauloffit.bsky.social about the approvals could mean this fall. www.healio.com/news/infecti...

🐛 The first human case of New World screwworm infestation in the U.S. was confirmed by the CDC. New World screwworm flies lay eggs in mammals’ wounds and their larvae feed on live tissue. The scourge has been inching closer to the U.S. in recent years. www.healio.com/news/infecti...

🦠 Latest #HookedOnID went up this morning: Sara K. Schultz, MD, FACP, FIDSA, FCPP, from @templeid.bsky.social. #IDSky #MedSky #PotatoSalad www.healio.com/news/infecti...

📖 A journal said it won't retract a study on aluminum-adsorbed vaccines & childhood chronic diseases, despite a call from HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to do so. @ameshaa.bsky.social told @gohealio.bsky.social the study does not have "significant weaknesses." www.healio.com/news/primary...

🚨 Written documentation shows that the man accused of firing nearly 200 shots at the CDC campus last week expressed discontent with and was distrustful of COVID-19 vaccines, law enforcement officials said Tuesday. Here's @gerardgallagher.bsky.social's report 👇 www.healio.com/news/infecti...

🏢 CDC employees were given the option to work from home after a shooting that targeted the agency’s headquarters in Atlanta. The CDC workers' union said the tragedy “was not random” and “compounds months of ... vilification that CDC staff have endured.” www.healio.com/news/infecti...

💉 HHS is winding down 22 mRNA vaccine development efforts under BARDA, which is responsible for medical countermeasures to address health emergencies, such as pandemics. @gohealio.bsky.social spoke to @ameshaa.bsky.social and Jeff Coller, PhD, about the decision. www.healio.com/news/infecti...

💉 Should the U.S. end dicennial diphtheria and tetanus boosters for adults? Experts say ending the #vaccine doses would align the U.S. with the French, U.K. and WHO vaccine schedules. We spoke with Mark K. Slifka, PhD, and William Schaffner, MD, about the idea. www.healio.com/news/infecti...

😷 A cluster of Legionnaires’ disease in New York City has grown to 67 cases & 3 deaths, the city health department announced in an update that continued to focus on cooling towers as the likely source of the infections. Here's @gerardgallagher.bsky.social's update 👇 www.healio.com/news/infecti...

💉 HHS has barred several professional medical organizations from participating as outside liaisons to the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee. The groups have generally weighed in on reviews & working group discussions. Here's @flandmines.bsky.social's report 👇 #IDsky www.healio.com/news/infecti...

🌆 A cluster of #Legionnaires’ disease in the #Harlem neighborhood of New York City has sickened at least 22 people since last week, killing one, city health officials announced. Here's @gerardgallagher.bsky.social's rundown 👇 www.healio.com/news/infecti...

🌟Fabulous summary of the new @idsainfo.bsky.social cUTI guidelines from our co-chair @bwtrautner.bsky.social #UTIsky #IDsky #Pharmsky

🦠 As medical device-associated infections increase, researchers propose #implantID as an ID subspecialty for experts with expertise on devices & infections to respond to the growing problem. We spoke with Alexander M. Tatara of UT Southwestern to learn more. www.healio.com/news/infecti...

🚨 HHS adopted a recommendation to remove thimerosal from all influenza vaccines. Since 2001, in the U.S., only multi-dose vials of the flu shot still contained it. Here's our rundown, with comments from Lawrence O. Gostin, JD, of Georgtown University. www.healio.com/news/infecti...

🏥 IDSA updated #UTI guidelines that complement previous guidance on uUTIs, & address the treatment of complicated UTI in men & menopausal women. Here's @caitstulpin.bsky.social's chat with Barbara W. Trautner, MD, PhD, of Washington University in St. Louis. #IDsky www.healio.com/news/infecti...