Infectious disease: from the daily briefing

Every daily briefing item tagged infectious disease, newest first. The weekly roundup is on the infectious disease page.

• Oct 28, 2026CDC's 2026 superbug report names four urgent threats and drops C. diff to seriousShareEvidence
• Oct 28, 2026Azithromycin not associated with new nontuberculous mycobacterial isolation in bronchiectasis or COPDEvidence
• Oct 28, 2026Long-acting cabotegravir-rilpivirine every 8 weeks keeps HIV suppressed in African adults with adherence problemsEvidence
• Oct 27, 2026Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak reaches 9,704 confirmed cases in Congo with imported cases in Kenya and Nigeria; Uganda orders 21-day quarantineShareIncident
• Oct 27, 2026First people vaccinated in phase 2/3 trial of a Bundibugyo Ebola vaccine as a health worker is killedIncident
• Oct 27, 2026Antenatal STI screening and treatment does not reduce preterm birth or low birthweight in trial of 2,247Evidence
• Oct 27, 2026FDA clears rapid combination test for COVID-19 and influenza A and B for professional settingsRegulation
• Oct 27, 2026Next-generation bed nets lower malaria incidence among children in Côte d'Ivoire cluster randomized trialEvidence
• Oct 27, 2026bioMerieux EMAG sample preparation system recalled over software error that can delay or block resultsIncident
• Oct 26, 2026Human metapneumovirus tied to ICU admission, ventilation and in-hospital death in meta-analysis of 94 studiesEvidence
• Oct 21, 2026Radical Numerics says phages designed by its AI model were given to a patient with an antibiotic-resistant infectionShareEvidence