Amesh Adalja

“Miyoko’s Creamery European Style Salted Plant Milk Butter has been voluntarily recalled from store shelves by distributor Prosperity Organic Foods because it may contain yeast, mold, and E. coli” www.aol.com/articles/but...

“We are creating an environment that is favoring pathogenic fungi and drug resistance,,That means they are likely becoming better at infecting us, and also at evading our treatments. That’s a bad combination.” apple.news/A5cSyfHLDTcS...

“Deployment as an aid to diagnose IA may support clinical decision-making, with sensitivity sufficient to warrant further exploration as a screening tool in people at high risk,” idsareporter.com/issues/2026/...

“There is a clear readiness gap at multiple levels: faculty use AI clinically but lack confidence in responsible implementation; fellows have minimal structured exposure despite high interest in learning,” idsareporter.com/issues/2026/...

“Evidence and modeling suggest targeting high-risk pools, such as children's pools during summer, could improve early detection.” idsareporter.com/issues/2026/...

“We welcome this resolution, which underscores that neglected tropical diseases cannot be viewed solely as a medical issue,” idsareporter.com/issues/2026/...

“Investigators evaluated an all-in-one assay designed to measure IgG and IgG4 responses simultaneously to Brugia malayi adult antigen and seven recombinant antigens specific to Loa loa, Wuchereria bancrofti, Onchocerca volvulus and Strongyloides stercoralis” idsareporter.com/issues/2026/...

“It is highly concerning that the most qualified person in the office of the director is departing the agency” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/h...

“Even if AI is used to design a potentially dangerous pathogen, it is not a threat until the organism can be modified in a lab or synthesized.” www.sciencenews.org/article/clau...

“Lancaster County logged 23 new measles cases in the past week, bringing the county total to 478 cases this year. Statewide, the number of people infected with the virus rose by 74 since last Monday, raising Pennsylvania’s total to 1,360 people infected with measles in 2026”

“It says a lot about a country if it is unable to control measles” — @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social www.cnbc.com/2026/10/27/u...

“Less than 1% of participants infected” www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/jap...

“Deaths among children in that age-group increased 12% during the same period” www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/glob...

Quoted in Prevention on norovirus. The illness is short: one to three days for most, four to six in young children, older adults, and hospitalized patients. The shedding is not: two weeks or more. Vomiting or diarrhea that outlasts the usual course deserves a stool test.

“In the phase 2 RePreve trial, Lumen Bioscience’s investigational oral biologic LMN-201 plus standard antibiotics achieved global cure in 83.3% of patients with C difficile infection vs 36.4% with placebo, and cut recurrence sixfold (9.1% vs 55.6%) with no drug-related serious adverse events”

“shortened time to complete and sustained resolution of RSV symptoms by up to 1 week in high-risk adults. The antiviral did not, however, improve time to resolution of symptoms to mild or absent, the trial's primary end point” www.contagionlive.com/view/zelicap...

“Dr. Bolduc, a professor of family medicine and community health at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, focuses on integrating HIV and viral hepatitis care into primary care, particularly in community health centers.” idsareporter.com/issues/2026/...

“Even if AI is used to design a potentially dangerous pathogen, it is not a threat until the organism can be modified in a lab or synthesized.” www.sciencenews.org/article/clau...

“FBI agents interviewed Unglesbee at his home on Sunday and he told them all the letters contained salt, court records show. He claimed he’d sent the letters after hearing someone talk about similar mailings in the news earlier this month.” www.butlereagle.com/20261026/ill...

“The adjusted mean annual change to patients' functional stage scores was -0.32 (95% CI -0.57 to -0.07, P=0.011) on a scale from 1-5” www.medpagetoday.com/meetingcover...

“up 22 cases from its previous ​update.” www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

“up 22 cases from its previous ​update.” www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

“Shuford had disagreed with the administration’s approach to vaccine policy” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

“Regeneron said it is ‌testing ⁠its experimental therapy, maftivimab, as a potential treatment for the Bundibugyo virus” www.reuters.com/business/hea...

“98 others still in quarantine would be released in four waves beginning on November 3.” www.reuters.com/business/hea...

“One of the theories the scientists will investigate is a potential link between the patient in Nigeria and the 1st case in Kenya, reported earlier this month in a man who had travelled from Congo..genomic sequencing showed that the viruses that infected the two patients were closely related”

“Expertise in clinical problem-solving defines and distinguishes infectious diseases as a specialty” www.idsociety.org/science-spea...

“Nigeria's health minister, Muhammad Ali Pate, had said the woman's clinical condition was much improved” www.reuters.com/world/africa...

“The woman was being treated at Geneva University Hospital, while her husband was in isolation at Zurich University Hospital. The agency said both hospitals were equipped to care for them” apnews.com/article/nige...

“Rush has specialized infrastructure designed to contain highly infectious dangerous pathogens” - which sit unused in lieu of the Kenya quarantine facility located in a country with its own Ebola outbreak abc7chicago.com/post/ebola-o...

“There are some advantages for Kennedy not to have a functioning ACIP..’Kennedy, in appointing his ACIP, wanted to change the schedule, and they haven’t been anywhere near as quick as he’d like them to be’..Delaying the reconstitution of the committee may allow him to make his own recommendations”

“It demonstrated that individualized beta-lactam dosing improves treatment outcomes, particularly clinical cure, with signals of benefit across other endpoints as well” idsareporter.com/issues/2026/...

“Our study did not observe any concerning trends in Staphylococcus or Enterococcus resistance rates or MIC distributions over an 8-year period that included a 3-year follow-up after liberalization of daptomycin and linezolid use,” idsareporter.com/issues/2026/...

“The 30-day death rate was 7% with early adequate source control versus 24% without it” idsareporter.com/issues/2026/...

“Among patients with P. aeruginosa bacteremia, seven-day treatment was associated with an estimated risk ratio for death of 1.28 compared with 14-day treatment” — @IDSAReporter idsareporter.com/issues/2026/...

“Among 75,914 patients screened during the study period, 176 received a new HIV diagnosis, corresponding to an overall test positivity rate of 0.23%” idsareporter.com/issues/2026/...

“The practical takeaway is that tailored training for your team members, such as medical assistants, on how to communicate can really enhance the consistency and quality of communications about vaccines.” www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

“‘Let’s build the next thing,’ @drdemetre.bsky.social said. ‘Because there’s nothing there that you can fix.’ For Daskalakis, rebuilding public health now starts closer to the ground — in clinics, neighborhoods and on the front line” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

“a team of scientists to Nigeria to investigate how the country’s first, and so far only, Ebola patient was infected, after a close examination of the patient’s travel itinerary late last week showed no travel to the DRC.” www.cidrap.umn.edu/ebola/kenya-...

“The study also found that many women did not continue getting the flu vaccine after they gave birth. However, uptake was modestly higher compared with the pre-pregnancy period” www.cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-va...

“‘sepsis from an endemic and emerging infectious disease,’ or SEEID..would recognize life-threatening organ dysfunction while preserving important differences in how each disease progresses and is treated”

"Blood-test-guided antibiotic stewardship could become an important tool in the fight against antimicrobial resistance if implemented alongside existing clinical guidance and prescribing frameworks.” medicalxpress.com/news/2026-10...

“The only way to get anyone to take a zoonotic disease seriously is if it kills people or has a demonstrable economic impact. And of course, by that time—game over.” www.cidrap.umn.edu/chronic-wast...

‘You’ll have [the current uptick in] cases that will peak in 2026, and then who knows what comes in January or February or March.' www.dailymail.com/health/artic...

“A payment that arrives only with the first answer, and a clinic built to expect it, will not earn the trust the HHS announcement says it is after. It will produce numbers, and the numbers will be wrong.” www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

“An outbreak in Washington state earlier this year involved multiple imported cases but was limited to 26 infections after a rapid response by local, state, and national officials, according to a Public Health” www.cidrap.umn.edu/public-healt...

“No animal or human will be protected from the toll of this virus through secrecy”— @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

“now requires citizens returning from neighboring Congo to spend 21 days in quarantine at their own expense” apnews.com/article/ugan...

“The attack took place Saturday in the town of Bafwasende in the country’s eastern Tshopo province” apnews.com/article/cong...

“there have been more than 4,580 measles cases reported in 2026 across the U.S. as of Oct. 22, which is more than double the number for the whole of 2025” www.npr.org/2026/10/25/n...