Caitlyn Stulpin

DENVER — A novel regimen of doravirine and islatravir was noninferior to a common HIV therapy as an initial HIV treatment, according to phase 3 data shared at the Conference on Opportunistic Infections and Retroviruses.“Over time, people may need to adjust their HIV treatment regimens because of comorbidities, concerns about toxicities, tolerability challenges or a desire for regimens

NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, was selected in February to also serve as acting director of the CDC, continuing the unprecedented turnover atop what is widely considered to be the world’s premier public health agency.Bhattacharya will oversee both agencies until a permanent CDC director is nominated and confirmed by the Senate, a White House official told Healio | Infectious

Researchers from New England Biolabs and Yale University have created a system for engineering the first fully synthetic bacteriophages that could help with future clinical development of phage therapies. Bacteriophages, also referred to as phages, are naturally occurring viruses that “selectively target and kill bacteria” without infecting human cells, according to WHO. They can be found

Only 10 human cases of Guinea worm disease were reported worldwide in 2025 — the lowest number ever recorded. The Carter Center announced the historic data just after the 1-year anniversary of former President Jimmy Carter’s passing. The center, named for Carter and his wife Rosalynn, took over the global Guinea worm eradication effort in 1986, when there were approximately 3.5 million cases

Canine coronavirus and influenza D are two zoonotic viruses that researchers say have “considerable potential” for causing future epidemics in people. In an article published recently in Emerging Infectious Diseases, John A. Lednicky, PhD, and colleagues summarized studies on influenza D and canine coronavirus that covered the viruses’ respective “discoveries” to

When HHS overhauled the CDC’s childhood immunization schedule in January, it significantly reduced the number of vaccines recommended for all children, which experts said will reduce vaccination rates and make the country sicker. The overhaul, which is being challenged by physicians in court, was undertaken without customary input from federal vaccine advisors after President Trump signed a memo

Researchers found that antemortem testing could increase detection and lead to more timely public health interventions for human rabies, which is under-diagnosed globally.“Human rabies under-detection is a global challenge due in part to under-testing,” Shama Cash-Goldwasser, MD, a medical officer with the CDC’s Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, told Healio.

Ethiopia has declared the end of its first outbreak of Marburg virus, health officials announced Monday. Since Nov. 14 when the outbreak was declared, a total of 14 cases and nine deaths were reported. According to WHO, three of those cases occurred among health workers, two of whom died.

A fully vaccinated dog tested positive for rabies last month in Chicago — the area’s first case in decades. The dog was surrendered to a local rescue after exhibiting increased behavioral issues, including growling, snapping, barking and anxiety. Because of this behavior, the dog was euthanized on Dec. 18.

The Zika virus epidemic that began in Brazil in 2015 and quickly spread to other countries caused an unprecedented flood of neurological disease, especially among infants, and changed the perception of the mosquito-borne disease forever. A virus once believed to be largely benign was suddenly ravaging the brains of infants and causing central nervous disease in adults, leading WHO to declare an