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XDR Shigella went from 0% to 8.5% of US isolates in 12 years. There are no FDA-approved oral treatments for the worst strains. The reason this stays quiet is that most deaths happen in poor children abroad, and that is exactly the wrong reason to ignore a resistance curve this steep.
By Kai Brighton · 3 min read
A Tulane study just linked untreated syphilis to a 92% higher hemorrhagic stroke risk and nearly 6x higher death odds. The infection is antibiotic-treatable. The cardiovascular damage it causes is not. Providers need to update their screening protocols before the next wave of cases compounds this problem.
By Kai Brighton · 3 min read
500,000 dengue cases globally in the first 3 months of 2026, and mainland Europe has zero. That gap is real, but it is not permanent. The mosquito that spreads dengue is already living in Florida and Texas, and it is waiting for the virus to show up more often.
By Maya Okafor · 3 min read
Pig organ transplants moved from science fiction to FDA-approved trials in roughly 3 years. The infection risk that worried researchers 30 years ago still has no precise number attached to it. Those 2 facts need to be in the same sentence more often.
By Vera Santos · 3 min read
Antibiotic-resistant infections killed 1.27 million people in 2019. Cancer killed roughly 10 million. The gap is real, and anyone collapsing it is misreading the data. But resistance rose in over 40% of monitored pathogen-antibiotic combinations between 2018 and 2023, and the broken economics of antibiotic development mean we are watching a slow catastrophe with the wrong urgency.
By Dr. Alex Chen · 3 min read
Australia recorded 60 measles cases since January 2025, with 8 showing no known exposure source. The country eliminated measles in 2014. What changed was not the virus; second-dose coverage dropped to 89.5%, just below the threshold where herd immunity holds.
By Dr. Alex Chen · 3 min read