What’s This About Delta Being 1,000 Times More Infectious?
You’ve been hearing it a lot lately: the Delta variant is 1,000 times more infectious than the original version of SARS-CoV-2. So where does that figure come from? It’s from a study by the Guangdong CDC in China — published earlier this month as a preprint on both medRxiv and virological.org — that experts are […]
Chinese Man Dies of Rare Virus From Monkeys
Latest Infectious Disease News MONDAY, July 19, 2021 (HealthDay News) A Chinese researcher has died after catching a rare infectious disease called the Monkey B virus, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention officials say. In March, the 53-year-old veterinarian dissected two dead monkeys as part of his work in a Beijing research […]
Monkeypox Case Confirmed in U.S. Resident, Threat of Spread Is Low – MedicineNet Health News
Latest Infectious Disease News MONDAY, July 19, 2021 A case of monkeypox has been confirmed in an American who had recently traveled to Nigeria, U.S. health officials reported. Officials believe the threat of the virus spreading to others is low. Monkeypox is a rare but potentially serious viral illness that’s in the same […]
Antibiotic-Resistant Pneumonia Is Killing Children in Bangladesh — Could It Spread?
Latest Infectious Disease News By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, July 15, 2021 (HealthDay News) Antibiotic-resistant bacteria is causing deadly pneumonia infections among large numbers of children in the South Asian nation of Bangladesh, a rising threat that could one day reach American shores, experts warn. Doctors found these “superbug” bacteria in more […]
H5N6 Bird Flu Infection Hits China – MedicineNet Health News
Latest Infectious Disease News FRIDAY, July 16, 2021 A man in China has been hospitalized with the H5N6 strain of avian flu, which is one of several potentially dangerous strains that can infect humans. The 55-year-old man came down with a fever and tested positive for the virus on July 6. He was […]
New Superbug Spread Could Threaten Humans – MedicineNet Health News
Latest Infectious Disease News By Alan Mozes HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, July 13, 2021 People who feed their dogs raw pet food may find more on the menu than they bargained for, with a new study finding it may be a source of antibiotic-resistant bacteria that could ultimately threaten humans. The European analysis looked […]
Global Warming Means Spread of Malaria, Dengue
Latest Infectious Disease News THURSDAY, July 8, 2021 (HealthDay News) Climate change could put billions more people at risk for deadly mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria and dengue, researchers said. They see the danger zone expanding within the United States, Europe and Asia. If temperatures rise by about 3.7 degrees Celsius by the […]
Biomaterial vaccines ward off broad range of bacterial infections and septic shock
Current clinical interventions for infectious diseases are facing increasing challenges due to the ever-rising number of drug-resistant microbial infections, epidemic outbreaks of pathogenic bacteria, and the continued possibility of new biothreats that might emerge in the future. Effective vaccines could act as a bulwark to prevent many bacterial infections and some of their most severe […]
Listeria Outbreak Linked to Precooked Chicken – MedicineNet Health News
Latest Infectious Disease News TUESDAY, July 6, 2021 One death has been reported in a listeria outbreak that appears to be linked to precooked chicken served in health care facilities, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. Three people in Texas and Delaware became sick after they ate foods at a […]
‘Black Plague’ Was Killing People at Least 5,000 Years Ago
Latest Infectious Disease News WEDNESDAY, June 30, 2021 (HealthDay News) The Black Death was stalking people thousands of years earlier than previously known, new evidence reveals. The oldest strain of Yersinia pestis — the bacteria behind the bubonic plague that may have killed as much as half of Europe’s population in the 1300s […]