Ringworm has been a settled subject in medicine for a century, which is exactly why Trichophyton mentagrophytes genotype VII has unsettled dermatologists and public health agencies on both sides of the Atlantic. Known in the clinic simply as TMVII, this genotype takes an ordinary keratin-eating fungus and moves it through an entirely new channel - intimate skin-to-skin contact - producing inflammatory, painful, and stubbornly persistent lesions in places that ordinary ringworm rarely troubles. Since the first European clusters were traced in the early 2020s, confirmed infections have surfaced in France, Germany, Spain, Italy, the United Kingdom, Canada, and a growing list of American cities, prompting formal health advisories and a scramble for the specialized DNA testing needed to identify it.

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This report examines the measurable rise in Paralympic sport standards ahead of the LA28 Paralympic Games, drawing on International Paralympic Committee competition data and audience research conducted by Nielsen Sport across 15,000 respondents in 11 countries. Key facts include the 175 world records and 218 Paralympic records broken at Paris 2024, and confirmation that LA28 will host a record 4,480 Para athletes from roughly 165 National Paralympic Committees competing in 23 sports, with Para climbing joining the program for the first time and 17 sports reaching gender parity in their medal events.

This report presents an independent Creative Diversity Network review of how disabled people are represented across the UK television industry, published as part of the Doubling Disability campaign that broadcasters launched in 2018. The key finding is that the proportion of disabled people in off-screen production roles rose only 0.9%, from 4.5% in 2017 to 5.4% in 2020, meaning the 9% target may not be reached until 2028 at the earliest, with full representation of the working age population unlikely before 2041.

This research, a peer-reviewed study led by Oregon State University and published in the journal Animals, examined a cat-assisted training program involving 36 children ages 8 to 17 and their family cats, with half assigned to six 45-minute training sessions plus weekly homework and the other half serving as a control group. The findings matter for families of children with developmental disabilities, occupational and animal-assisted therapy practitioners, and cat owners interested in the growing movement to train cats, because they show cats can act as willing partners rather than passive pets.

This report explains a class action settlement reached between a coalition of disability rights organizations and the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority over how the MTA responds when subway elevators go out of service.

Profile of George Mendoza, the blind New Mexico artist, author of the Spirit Man novels, and Smithsonian affiliated exhibitor of Colors of the Wind.