The number of salmonellosis cases is increasing across Europe, and it has also been detected in Estonia; the source of the disease is considered to be Ukrainian-made Reeva instant noodles, and the infected are mainly children, writes ERR News. Although salmonellosis is usually contracted by eating raw eggs (for example, gogelmogeli – egg yolks beaten […]
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Covid vaccination was also tied to a nearly 24% reduction in all-cause cardiac events in a large study, surprising researchers.
Why did a 15 year old in 1960 look like they were 30?
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“Failing to engage religious and traditional leaders in meaningful ways was a grave misstep in previous Ebola outbreaks,” researchers write.
“Ebola is an unforgiving enemy,” writes Tom Frieden, who led the U.S. CDC response to the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak.
The Ebola outbreak in Central Africa could grow to 20,000 cases or more, depending on how quickly infected people are isolated to slow the spread, according to a new U.S. analysis.
Outbreak response is difficult enough without asking responders to wonder whether they will have access to the best available care if they become ill.
Americans who have high-risk exposures to Ebola in the current outbreak in Central Africa will have access to an experimental antibody treatment.
A senior NIH scientist and his research fellow were charged with smuggling vials of deactivated mpox virus into the country from Africa and lying about it.
Trump officials are disregarding the Biden administration's detailed pandemic plans in favor of their own strategy.
The U.S. is taking extraordinary steps to keep Ebola out. But its policies may create risks for Americans infected overseas and discourage volunteers from responding to the outbreak.
Jeffery Taubenberger, the acting head of the NIAID, the NIH’s infectious disease institute, is reported to have stepped down.
President Trump's cuts to foreign aid probably hampered the detection of the Ebola outbreak and the response to it.
With no approved vaccine for the fast-growing Ebola outbreak in the DRC, experts weigh testing one with unknown protection.
In response to an Ebola outbreak, the U.S. has banned entry for foreign travelers who have been in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, or South Sudan in the…
A number of Americans who are in the Congo are believed to have had exposure to suspected cases in the country’s latest Ebola outbreak, sources have told STAT.
The deadly outbreak of a rare strain of hantavirus on a cruise has generated echoes of the pandemic era, including conspiracy theories.
The WHO said an Ebola outbreak first seen in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was an international public health emergency, underscoring the world's concerns.
State health officials reiterated Wednesday that the risk to public health from hantavirus remains very low, even as the health department keeps tabs on two Maryland residents who were potentially exposed to the rare infectious disease during recent air travel.
Despite rising concern about the hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship, two CDC doctors say the risk to the public remains low.
Radboud Hospital in the Netherlands has placed 12 medical staff members in a six-week quarantine after working with blood and urine samples from Hantavirus patients without following strict safety protocols, Reuters reports. The hospital said the risk of infection was very low and patient care would continue as usual. The doctors’ quarantine highlights the challenge […]
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European researchers have diagnosed a number of men who have sex with other men with a skin disease that normally infects livestock.
An old rodent virus has exposed a modern problem: travel moves faster than diagnosis.
Here are key takeaways from a WHO briefing on the hantavirus outbreak aboard a cruise ship.
The hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius has focused the public's attention on cruise ship safety.
The cruise ship M/V Hondius, which has been hit by an outbreak of the Hantavirus, has set sail for the Canary Islands and is scheduled to arrive in Tenerife on the 9th of May, with islanders worried that the situation could develop into a quarantine similar to that during the Covid-19 pandemic, Reuters reports. The M/V […]
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The luxury cruise ship M/V Hondius had been docked off the coast of Cape Verde for several days and was due to sail to the Canary Islands, but the island’s government opposed the plan, Reuters reports. Meanwhile, South Africa confirmed that the infected were infected with a strain of the virus that can rarely spread […]
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After a suspected Hantavirus outbreak on the M/V Hondius cruise ship that killed three people and sickened three others, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on the 4th of May that the risk to the public was low, Politico reports. The WHO has confirmed one case of Hantavirus on the cruise ship and five more […]
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A new policy that recommends offering hepatitis B vaccine at birth only to babies perceived to be at risk will lead to increased numbers of infected infants and more cases…
Nancy Cox, a CDC veteran who for decades was a global leader in influenza research, has died at 77.