Caitlyn Stulpin

Data from a phase 3 study assessing more than 5,000 women and 500 pregnancies support the use of long-acting lenacapavir as HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis among pregnant, postpartum and lactating women, researchers said. Lenacapavir (Yeztugo, Gilead) is administered via two injections given every 6 months. It has been approved for treatment in the United States for people with drug-resistant HIV

There has been some recent optimism that the Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo may have slowed after spreading faster than any other outbreak on record.

The CDC and FDA are investigating a multistate Escherichia coli outbreak linked to recalled raw milk cheeses.The ongoing outbreak has sickened 13 people in nine states — California, Colorado, Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, Nevada, Oregon, Tennessee and Utah.

The CDC, WHO and other agencies said they are monitoring the situation surrounding the death of a laboratory worker in Russia who worked at an institute focused on plague research.

Cases of plague are rare but not unheard of in the United States. Cases of pneumonic plague, the type at the center of a mysterious story in Russia, are even rarer. The death of a man from pneumonic plague last year in Arizona was linked to contact with sick cats, according to a recently published report in MMWR.

Amid a surge in syphilis cases in Alaska, an opt-out screening program implemented in Alaskan correctional facilities helped to identify new cases that would have likely been missed, according to a recent MMWR report.

Key takeaways: Globally, deaths caused by or attributed to AMR cost $835 billion and $3.48 billion, respectively.

WASHINGTON — The public's trust in the CDC and HHS to provide health information remains low, but trust in personal healthcare providers has increased, according to survey data presented at IDWeek.

WASHINGTON — Nearly 7 years' worth of data from the national bacteriophage therapy program showed that phage therapy is well tolerated and

Federal data published Tuesday showed an increase in infections and deaths related to drug resistance in the United States since the last time the CDC issued a report on the subject years ago.