[Newsdesk] Controversial HBV vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau halted
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(26)00075-7/fulltext?rss=yes

A US-funded study in Guinea-Bissau on the effects of neonatal hepatitis B virus vaccination has been suspended pending further review due to ethical concerns. Talha Burki reports.

[Newsdesk] People needing trachoma interventions at record low
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(26)00073-3/fulltext?rss=yes

In January 2026, WHO reported that the number of people requiring interventions for trachoma had fallen below 100 million—a 94% reduction since 2002. Timothy Jesudason reports.

Genetically Similar High-Risk Strains of Carbapenemase-Producing Enterobacterales in Humans and Companion Animals, United States

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/32/3/25-1458_article

Correction: Vol. 32, No. 1

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/32/3/c1-3203_article

Projected Effects of Changing Global Tuberculosis Epidemiology on Mycobacterium tuberculosis Prevalence and Immunoreactivity, 2024–2050

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/32/3/25-1340_article

Rethinking Leptospirosis Prevention, the Philippines

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/32/3/25-1250_article

Romanticism at the Edge of Death

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/32/3/ac-3203_article

Optimal Specimens and Lesions for Mpox Diagnosis Using Real-Time PCR, South Korea

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/32/3/25-0582_article

Rickettsia lanei Rickettsiosis, Oregon, USA, 2025

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/32/4/25-1962_article

Strongyloides Genetic Diversity among Humans, Dogs, and Nonhuman Primates, Central African Republic, 2016–2022

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/32/3/25-0526_article

[Comment] Preventing tuberculosis in advanced HIV disease
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhiv/article/PIIS2352-3018(25)00277-2/fulltext?rss=yes

The persistent and high burden of advanced HIV disease in endemic settings is a major threat to global efforts to reduce AIDS-related hospitalisations and deaths. In 2024, over 600 000 people died from AIDS-related opportunistic infections, with over half of these deaths due to cryptococcal meningitis and tuberculosis. We now have innovative diagnostic, preventive, and therapeutic interventions to combat these diseases, but implementing these new tools among people with advanced HIV presents several enduring challenges.

[Articles] Inpatient initiation of tuberculosis preventive therapy with 1 month of isoniazid and rifapentine for adults with advanced HIV disease and cryptococcal meningitis (IMPROVE): a non-inferiority, randomised controlled trial
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhiv/article/PIIS2352-3018(25)00246-2/fulltext?rss=yes

1HP initiation before hospital discharge was non-inferior to outpatient initiation among adults with AHD and cryptococcosis. These data suggest that following exclusion of active tuberculosis disease, inpatient 1HP initiation is feasible and comparably safe compared with outpatient initiation.

Environmental and Phylogenetic Investigations of Aspergillus flavus Outbreak Linked to Contaminated Building Materials, Denmark, 2025

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/32/3/25-1219_article

Rapid Interventions to Limit Outbreak of Invasive Streptococcus pneumoniae in Correctional Facility, North Carolina, USA, 2024

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/32/3/25-0789_article

Home-Based Monitoring of Treatment-Related Adverse Events during Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Treatment, India, 2020–2024

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/32/3/25-1893_article

Seroincidence Rate of Typhoidal Salmonella in Children, Kenya, 2017–2018

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/32/3/25-0469_article

Oestrus ovis Nasal Myiasis with Pupation in Human Host, Greece, October 2025

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/32/3/25-1077_article

lsaC and Tandem lsaE-lnuB Resistance Genes in Invasive Group A Streptococcus

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/32/3/25-1776_article

Natural Hendra Virus Infections in Captive Australian Black Flying Foxes, Queensland, Australia

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/32/3/25-1350_article

Mycobacterium riyadhense Pulmonary Disease after Relocation from Saudi Arabia, Japan

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/32/3/25-1418_article

Two Cases of Posttraumatic Kosakonia Infection, Argentina, 2023

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/32/3/25-1714_article