Getty Images By Philippa Roxby Health reporter University students are being urged to use a condom if having sex during freshers’ week to protect themselves against record levels of gonorrhoea. Diagnoses of the sexually transmitted infection have soared, and 15 to 24-year-olds are most likely to catch it, say UK health officials. Gonnorhoea can be […]
An Arkansas resident has died after being infected with an extremely rare brain-eating amoeba, and health officials have concluded they were likely exposed to it at a country club’s splash pad, authorities announced Thursday. The Arkansas Department of Health announced the death from the Naegleria fowleri infection, a rare infection that destroys brain tissue, causing […]
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Public health officials have reported an Arkansas resident died after exposure to a rare brain-eating amoeba infection at a Little Rock splash pad. The Arkansas Department of Health stated Thursday that the unidentified person died after exposure to Naegleria Fowleri, a rare amoeba that can cause a brain-tissue-destroying infection. KARK 4 […]
Dr. Thomas K. Lew “Déjà vu, not again,” was my first thought when, as a front-line physician, I recently admitted a patient struggling to breathe with COVID-19. It had been at least a year since I saw someone who had a CT scan as bad as his, with inflammation ravaging every part of his previously […]
A new agreement is poised to accelerate antibiotic access for tens of thousands of patients in regions with the highest rates of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The Global Antibiotic Research & Development Partnership (GARDP) and India-based Orchid Pharma Ltd have signed a sublicense agreement to manufacture cefiderocol, an antibiotic to treat certain Gram-negative infections. This agreement […]
The Indian state of Kerala is racing to contain a new outbreak of the deadly Nipah virus, which has killed two people so far and infected at least five, according to government officials. Schools in the affected Kozhikode district are closed, several villages have been declared containment zones, and 950 contacts have been identified, 213 […]
Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email The top Covid hotspots in England have been revealed as new data showed hospital admissions have risen to their highest rate since the end of April. There were 8,961 cases in the […]
In view of the Nipah virus cases in Kerala, the Karnataka Health Department issued a circular on Thursday to intensify surveillance in the districts bordering Kerala to prevent the transmission of the infection. With one more case of Nipah virus confirmed in Kerala’s Kozhikode on Friday, the total tally is now at 6, including 2 […]
Three recently published studies have detailed foodborne botulism and Campylobacter outbreaks in Japan. The first, published in the Emerging Infectious Diseases journal, covered an outbreak of botulism in 2021 caused by Clostridium botulinum in Kumamoto. A meal eaten in a domestic residence was the suspected cause, and four patients were affected. Botulinum toxin and Clostridium botulinum were detected in […]
BEIJING, Sept 15 (Reuters) – China plans to manage monkeypox in the same way it handles infectious diseases such as COVID-19 starting from Sept. 20, health authorities said on Friday, after detecting around 500 cases of the viral infection last month. Monkeypox will be managed under Category B protocols, the National Health Commission (NHC) said […]