The superbug Staphylcocus epidermidis on an agar plate in Melbourne on September 4, 2018. © William WEST / AFP Doctors are warning of a potentially fatal and “formidable” pathogen which has spread to hospitals across the globe and is resistant … Read More
Syphilis is a thing of the past? Wrong. The number of syphilis infections worldwide has increased drastically in recent years. 4,309 cases were reported in Germany in 2007, 10 years later, it had reached 7,476. But why? Berlin today, New … Read More
Disease spread through water, soil or food containing rodent urine has infected 372 people in southern state of Kerala. “Rat fever” has killed at least 12 people with another 54 suspected fatal cases in the southern Indian state of Kerala since August, … Read More
In a recent Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ) webcast, 2 public health experts discussed the recent rapid increase in the incidence of infectious diseases that has been linked with injection drug use (IDU). Jonathan Mermin, MD, MPH, Director, National … Read More
Health officials in the south Indian state of Kerala say nine people have died in confirmed and suspected cases of the deadly Nipah virus. Three victims have tested positive for the virus in the past fortnight. The results from the … Read More
The UN and partners have launched a plan to vaccinate 1 billion people against yellow fever in Africa. A mass vaccination campaign in West Africa is a model to eliminate the disease. Nearly 1 billion people in Africa will be … Read More
The medical community is sounding the alarm after a man in the U.K. has become the first patient with a type of gonorrhea infection that is not responding to the antibiotics commonly used to cure it. Doctors are calling it … Read More
The Brazil Ministry of Health updated on Wednesday (computer translated) the information passed by the state health departments on the situation of yellow fever in the country. During the monitoring period (from July 1, 2017 to March 27, 2018), 1,131 cases of yellow … Read More