Dr. Joseph Gosnell, chief resident physician of pathology at the University of Texas Medical Branch, is an official 2023 Emerging Liver Scholar Award winner.

Rocky Mountain spotted fever is the deadliest tick-borne disease. If left untreated, it will kill roughly 20 percent of those who contract it, said Dr. David Walker, a professor of pathology at the University of Texas Medical Branch. Even when treated with doxycycline, it is fatal in about 4 percent of cases, he said. “You’ve got to treat them before day five if you don’t want death to start occurring,” Walker said. “It’s not an easy diagnosis to make.”

Malaria typically turns up in the U.S. when American residents travel abroad, contract malaria and then return home. On the other hand, when experts say eight new cases were “locally acquired,” that means that the infected individual acquired the virus from a mosquito inside the U.S., said Dr. Scott Weaver, virologist and director of the Institute for Human Infections & Immunity and a professor at the University of Texas Medical Branch.

The Facts newspaper released its list of Readers’ Choice winners for 2023. The UTMB Health Angleton Danbury Campus won 1st place in three categories: Favorite Hospital, Favorite ER and Favorite Urgent Care Facility.