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Idaho Boy Hospitalized After Contracting Bubonic Plague.

The Washington Post (6/13, Bever) reports an Idaho boy has contracted the bubonic plague in “the first human case in the state in more than two decades, health officials say.” The child, “who has not been publicly identified,” is recovering “after being...

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EU Supports Plan To Combat Antimicrobial Resistance.

Reuters (6/13, Echikson) reports that “EU member states” backed a plan on Wednesday to combat antimicrobial resistance, “an increasing global health issue, that would reduce the use of antibiotics in the food chain and limit certain drugs to humans.” Acc...

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Few Florida Residents Took Precautions To Prevent Infections During 2016 Zika Scare, Study Finds.

The Tampa Bay (FL) Times (6/13, Griffin) reports a new study published in Risk Analysis indicates that in the 2016 Zika outbreak in Florida, residents of the state “were nearly twice as likely as residents in other states to take precautions against the...

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China’s Vaccine Tourists Cause Shortage Of HPV Vaccine In Hong Kong.

Bloomberg News (6/13, Einhorn, Wei) reports that medical tourism from China has caused a shortage in Hong Kong of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine. HPV can also cause cervical cancer. Bloomberg reports that around 2 million mainland Chinese have tr...

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Op-Ed Recommends Submitting Genetic Data To NIH’s All Of Us Program.

Writing for STAT (6/13), Eric Dishman, director of the National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program, says the program aims to “create one of the largest, richest public resources for biomedical research in human history. Its mission is to a...

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Anti-Vaccination “Hotspots” Increasing Across The US, Researchers Say.

In “To Your Health,” the Washington Post (6/12, Sun) reports that research published online in PLOS Medicine “tracked the increasing number of children with” vaccination “exemptions in all 18 states from the 2009-2010 to 2016-2017 school years.” Investig...

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Human Cells Sometimes Resist Crispr Gene Editing, Research Indicates.

The New York Times (6/12, Zimmer, Subscription Publication) reports new research published Monday in the journal Nature Medicine suggest human cells are able to “resist gene editing by turning on defenses against cancer, ceasing reproduction and sometime...

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Uninfected Infants With HIV-Infected Mothers May Have Higher Levels Of Regulatory T Cells Compared To HIV-Infected Infants, Research Suggests.

MedPage Today (6/12, Walker) reports researchers found that “uninfected infants with HIV-infected mothers had higher levels of regulatory T (Treg) cells when compared with HIV-infected infants.” The findings were presented at the ASM Microbe meeting.

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Health Workers Still Warring Against Ebola In Congo, WHO Says.

Reuters (6/12, Nyemba) reports World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Tuesday that the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo “is stabilizing, but still the outbreak is not over. ... We are still at war....

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Women In Major Cities, Particularly Black Women, Accounting For Larger Share Of People Living with HIV And New Cases In US.

The Huffington Post (6/12, Moreno) reports that while there has been an “overall decline in the number of new HIV diagnoses” in the US, “in some major cities, women’s HIV rates have not been declining as quickly as men’s in recent years.” The Post adds t...

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US Agencies Working To Address Nigeria’s High Rate Of Mother-To-Child HIV Transmission.

In an over 2,800-word article, Science Magazine (6/12, Cohen) reports that “at a time when rates of mother-to-child transmission of HIV have plummeted, even in far poorer countries, Nigeria accounted for 37,000 of the world’s 160,000 new cases of babies...

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Public Health Officials Concerned Title X Changes Will Undercut STD Fight.

NPR (6/12, Andrews) reports that some public health officials are concerned the Trump Administration’s move to change how the Title X family planning funding is managed “may hurt the effort to cut the record number of sexually transmitted diseases in the...

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Idaho Boy Hospitalized After Contracting Bubonic Plague.

EU Supports Plan To Combat Antimicrobial Resistance.

Few Florida Residents Took Precautions To Prevent Infections During 2016 Zika Scare, Study Finds.

China’s Vaccine Tourists Cause Shortage Of HPV Vaccine In Hong Kong.

Op-Ed Recommends Submitting Genetic Data To NIH’s All Of Us Program.

Anti-Vaccination “Hotspots” Increasing Across The US, Researchers Say.

Human Cells Sometimes Resist Crispr Gene Editing, Research Indicates.

Uninfected Infants With HIV-Infected Mothers May Have Higher Levels Of Regulatory T Cells Compared To HIV-Infected Infants, Research Suggests.

Health Workers Still Warring Against Ebola In Congo, WHO Says.

Women In Major Cities, Particularly Black Women, Accounting For Larger Share Of People Living with HIV And New Cases In US.

US Agencies Working To Address Nigeria’s High Rate Of Mother-To-Child HIV Transmission.

Public Health Officials Concerned Title X Changes Will Undercut STD Fight.