Infectious Disease This Week

North Carolina health officials confirmed two West Nile virus deaths among adults in the central part of the state, where CDC data show 11 human cases this season.

A 39-year-old unvaccinated Franklin County woman has died after a recent measles diagnosis. Nationally, numbers continue to increase and the US has passed 4,000 cases.

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.