The state of Virginia is warning of a statewide outbreak of meningococcal disease, a “rare but serious” bacterial illness that can lead to meningitis. Since June 2022, there have been 27 cases of the disease reported in eastern, central, and southwest Virginia
An outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in the southern Polish city of Rzeszow has killed five people so far, a doctor said on Thursday, as authorities scrambled to find the source of the bacterial infection, which they believed was in the water supply.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is warning the American public that more than two dozen people have been sickened across 11 states as part of a salmonella outbreak linked to small turtles. Out of the 26 illnesses reported in
Bangladesh is struggling to deal with higher casualties and infections from dengue this year, with officials warning that the death toll this month could break records. The government’s Directorate General of Health Services reports the 2023 death toll from the mosquito-borne illness
There are now more golden lion tamarins bounding between branches in the Brazilian rainforest than at any time since efforts to save the species started in the 1970s, a new survey reveals. Once on the brink of extinction, with only about 200
Beijing has been accused of “endless cover-ups” around Covid by a scientist who claimed that China sequenced the virus’ genome five days before the world knew of the outbreak. The comments were made by virologist Professor Edward Holmes of the University of
Dengue is spreading rapidly through densely populated Bangladesh this rainy season, raising fears that the mosquito-borne disease could result in a record number of deaths and infections for the second consecutive year. At least 201 people, more than half of them in
An outbreak of Salmonella linked to ground beef has sickened 16 people in the Northeast and hospitalized six others, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The agency said nine people who had taken ill were from New Jersey,
The World Health Organisation (WHO) is concerned about an outbreak of one of the world’s deadliest diseases after a man was hospitalised in Abu Dhabi. A 28-year-old male has been left in a life-threatening condition after contracting MERS (Middle East respiratory syndrome-related
Three people have died from a listeria outbreak in the state of Washington, the Department of Health there reported on July 21. A total of five adults over 60 years of age are known to have developed “severe infections” from Listeria monocytogenes