CDC says it's identified 1st documented cases of HIV transmitted through cosmetic needles
Federal health officials say three women who were diagnosed with HIV after getting โvampire facialโ procedures at an unlicensed New Mexico medical spa are believed to be the first documented cases of people contracting the virus through a cosmetic procedure using needles.
Legionnaires' disease outbreak in southeast Poland on decline with only 1 new case reported
Just one new case of Legionnairesโ disease has been reported in southeast Poland in an area close to the Ukraine border, an indication the spread of the disease has been curbed following chlorine disinfection of the water system.
US boosts monkeypox testing, 142 cases confirmed
The Biden administration has started shipping testing kits for monkeypox to commercial laboratories, in a bid to speed diagnostic tests for suspected infections for the virus that has already infected at least 142 people in the U.S. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is sending tests to commercial labs, including Aegis Science, Labcorp, Mayo Clinic Laboratories, Quest Diagnostics and Sonic Healthcare, which it said would significant expand the nationโs health systemโs capacity to...
WHO: Nearly 200 cases of monkeypox in more than 20 countries
The World Health Organization says nearly 200 cases of monkeypox have been reported in more than 20 countries not usually known to have outbreaks of the unusual disease, but described the epidemic as โcontainableโ and proposed creating a stockpile to equitably share the limited vaccines and drugs available worldwide.