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The National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) recently held its respiratory season kick-off, which included the release of its annual respiratory disease survey. This year, the survey revealed the gap between vaccine support and uptake. Robert Hopkins Jr, MD, medical director of NFID delves deeper into the findings of the survey and the vaccine uptake challenges associated with certain immunizations.

Detection of the virulent neurotropic fungus Cladophialophora bantiana in clinical samples, primarily CNS tissue, increased four-fold in the period from 2023 to 2025.

CDC reports 8,750 confirmed Bundibugyo virus cases and 4,208 deaths, making the DRC outbreak the second-largest Ebola outbreak on record.

Pritelivir (Hovilpri) healed all lesions by day 28 in 63% of immunocompromised adults with refractory HSV versus 34% with investigator's choice in the phase 3 PRIOH-1 trial.

CDC is continuing its investigation into 4 multistate Salmonella and E coli outbreaks, led by a 76-case alfalfa sprout cluster across 16 states and a recalled raw milk cheese.

The latest CDC numbers show a 5.0% increase of measles cases from week-to-week. The US total reached 4080 confirmed cases, 78% above all of 2025.

UTI guidelines are moving away from complicated or uncomplicated infections to localized or systemic classification terminologies. Guidelines author Zachary Nelson, PharmD, MPH, BCIDP, provides further insights on the changes including applying antibiograms, potential costs, and whether clinicians will embrace these new classifications.

Demonstrating a diagnostic test works is no longer enough. Clinicians and laboratories also need evidence on how to adopt it in everyday practice. Andrea Prinzi, PhD, MPH, SM(ASCP), explains how implementation science can help infectious disease and clinical microbiology teams turn evidence into routine care.

Kenya reported its first imported Bundibugyo Ebola death as the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) outbreak surpassed 8,600 confirmed cases and 4,148 deaths, with 896 patients hospitalized in isolation. Here is a report on the latest numbers as well as vaccine and therapeutic study updates.

With US measles cases nearing 3,900 this year and Pennsylvania reporting its fifth measles-related death, here is a review of how the virus spreads, how it is prevented and managed, and what severe disease looks like.

Vaxcyte's 31-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine candidate met every prespecified primary immunogenicity and safety endpoint against PCV20 and PCV21 in the OPUS-1 trial of 4,047 US adults.

Long-acting cabotegravir plus rilpivirine (Cabenuva) achieved superior viral suppression vs daily oral antiretroviral therapy at 6months in treatment-experienced people with HIV and detectable viremia in the phase 3b CROWN trial.

FDA-cleared single-step immunoblot tests built on recombinant antigens from multiple Borrelia species detected nearly twice as many early Lyme disease cases as standard 2-tier testing. Joseph J. Burrascano Jr, MD, offers insights into what the new tests mean for clinicians.

Irkutsk anti-plague institute death prompts quarantines and conflicting official accounts.

A laboratory technician at a Siberian anti-plague institute has died of pneumonia of unknown cause, prompting quarantines and contact monitoring while Russian officials stop short of confirming plague.


































































































































































































