Teen Dies After Doctors Misdiagnose Tampon Infection
A 13-year-old girl from England died from Toxic Shock Syndrome earlier this year when doctors misdiagnosed her condition.
Jake Tapper Says His Daughter ‘Almost Died’ From Appendicitis After Misdiagnosis
Jake Tapper said Thursday that his 15-year-old daughter, Alice, “almost died” last year from appendicitis after she was misdiagnosed at the hospital. The CNN anchor shared his family’s terrifying experience in a segment, noting that 7.4 million patients are misdiagnosed each year out of about 130 million annual emergency department visits, according to a report […]
CDC Details Rabies Death After Boy Goes Untreated Following Bat Bite
Public health officials released details on how a 7-year-old boy from Texas died from a rare rabies infection last year. Although the boy had informed his parents he had been bitten by a bat while playing outside his apartment home, there were no visible bite marks, so the parents did not seek rabies postexposure prophylaxis […]
CDC: HIV Coinfection in Over 80% of Hospitalized Monkeypox Cases
In a cohort of patients hospitalized for monkeypox, four out of five had HIV and one in five died, CDC researchers said. Of the 57 adults hospitalized due to serious complications from monkeypox, 82.5% had HIV and 8.5% were receiving antiretroviral therapy, reported Maureen Miller, MD, of the CDC’s Monkeypox Emergency Response Team, and colleagues. […]
Texas Reports Nation’s First Possible Death From Monkeypox
A severely immunocompromised man in Texas has died after being diagnosed with monkeypox, state and local health officials announced Tuesday, marking what may be the nation’s first death related to the disease. Harris County Judge Linda Hidalgo said in a statement that the Houston-area man, who died Sunday, “faced various severe illnesses” and that his […]
You May Have Heard About Parechovirus. Here’s What To Know
In June, Kat and Mitchell Delancey’s newborn son died as a result of infection with parechovirus, a common but little-known virus they told the New York Times they were “blindsided” by. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health advisory about parechovirus last week, stating that it had received multiple reports of infections […]
Opinion | Why Can’t We Say ‘Suicide’?
Iconic singer Naomi Judd died at age 76, one day before she was to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Her daughters, Wynonna and Ashley Judd, shared a statement confirming her death: “Today [April 30, 2022] we sisters experienced a tragedy. We lost our beautiful mother to the disease of mental illness.” […]
CDC Warns of Rise in Rabies Linked to Bats – MedicineNet Health News
Latest Infectious Disease News FRIDAY, Jan. 7, 2022 Three people died recently in the United States recently from rabies linked to bats, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. They bring the total number of U.S. rabies cases in 2021 to five. That’s a sharp rise over prior years — […]