On Saturday, the Centers For Disease Control (CDC) confirmed the first case of brain damage in the United States linked to the Zika virus. The baby, born in a hospital on Oahu on Friday, had microcephaly, a rare neurological disease that has been linked to the Zika virus in babies born in Brazil. Health officials confirmed the baby was infected with the virus shortly after its birth, according to Reuters.

This week, doctors at the University of California Los Angeles Medical Center discovered that a contaminated medical tool had been spreading antibiotic-resistant bacteria to patients. The bacteria, known as carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae or CRE, has been called a “nightmare” bacteria by the Centers for Disease Control and can kill as many as half the people it infects. So far, two people have died from the infection, and UCLA has reached out to another 179 people that might be infected. When already in the throes of an outbreak, what should a hospital do to stop it?

The parasite Toxoplasma gondiican cause heart, brain, nervous system or eye damage inpeople with weakened immune systems, and harm or kill developing fetuses in pregnant women. Over 60 million people in the United States carry the the parasite, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), but typically showno symptoms of being infected, a conditioncalled toxoplasmosis.

Last year, we wrote about Flu Trends, Google's search engine-based influenza barometer. The takeaway: after calibrating its results against the numbers from the Centers for Disease Control - which are based on emergency-room visits - Google did a pretty good job of predicting a flu outbreak, and did so quickly, without having to wait for all those hospital reports to reach the CDC and be compiled into a weekly report.