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In the last four months, 11 people in 8 states have contracted a specific strain of salmonella, The New York Times reports. And in all but one of those cases, the infected person had recent contact with a hedgehog.

With a severe version of mpox breaking out in the Democratic Republic of Congo, officials with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are warning that it could spread and that people at risk should be vaccinated as soon as possible. High-risk populations include men who have sex with men, although anyone can contract the disease, which is largely spread by skin-to-skin contact — sexual relations, for instance, but also in crowds at outdoor festivals. Thousands of gay and bisexual men developed mpox in a 2022 outbreak. People with compromised immune systems, such as those living with HIV, are at high risk for serious cases and death. “There are two main types of mpox: Clade I, the type that is dominant in Congo, and Clade II, a version of which caused the 2022 global outbreak,” The New York Times reports. Clade I is deadlier than Clade II, the Times notes, explaining that “a clade is a genetically and clinically distinct group of viruses.” No Clade I cases have been documented outside of Congo yet, but a global spread is possible, as the 2022 outbreak that affected Europe and North America originated in Nigeria. “This is a very important example of how an infection anywhere is potentially an infection everywhere, and why we need to continue to improve disease surveillance globally,” Anne Rimoin, an epidemiologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, told the Times.

A respiratory virus that most people have never heard of was to blame for many hospitalizations and illnesses this spring, health officials say. The human metapneumovirus, or HMPV, causes symptoms similar to COVID-19 or RSV, but doctors don’t usually test for it outside of a hospital setting, meaning many people likely had no idea they had it. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…

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The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a warning regarding the spread of a potentially deadly fungus known as Candida auris. This fungus can cause serious infections, particularly among those with weakened immune systems, and is resistant to many commonly used antifungal drugs. The CDC is urging healthcare facilities to take necessary precautions to prevent…

CDC urges parents to look for symptoms of rare ‘polio-like’ illness in children

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DETROIT – Just as parents are becoming increasingly concerned about the impact COVID-19 will have on the return to school, the CDC has issued a warning about another illness.

The warning comes just one week after the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services reported the state’s first confirmed case of acute flaccid myelitis (AFM), a rare condition that attacks the nervous system,…