The U.S. government today announced a coordinated crackdown against QakBot, a complex malware family used by multiple cybercrime groups to lay the groundwork for ransomware infections. The international law enforcement operation involved seizing control over the botnet’s online infrastructure, and quietly removing the Qakbot malware from tens of thousands of infected Microsoft Windows computers. Qakbot/Qbot […]
More than 100 people who participated in a Tough Mudder obstacle course race in California apparently contracted bacterial infections during the event. The competitors, who took part in the obstacle course at Sonoma Raceway on Aug. 19 and 20, have reported experiencing fevers, vomiting, muscle pain and a distinct rash that includes boils. At least […]
Gov. Hochul Tuesday urged New Yorkers to take extra precautions to prevent the spread of COVID-19 as the state is examining an especially virulent new strain of the virus amid a surge in infections and hospitalizations. The governor said the state is providing free masks and closely monitoring test results and wastewater samples to keep […]
A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan revealed the woman had a lesion in her brain (left), which doctors later found to contain a 3.15 inch-long worm (right). (Image credit: Hossain, M. E., et al. (2023). https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2909.230351. (CC BY 4.0)) A woman in Australia has become the first known person in the world to be infected […]
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WNDU) – Dr. Bob Cassady from the South Bend Clinic joins us every Tuesday on 16 News Now at Noon to answer your medical questions. Question #1: “A couple of viewers reached out to us about colds and COVID. Can you give us an update?” DR. BOB: It seems like we have […]
A 64-year-old Australian woman is the first documented human to be infected with a type of parasite normally found in carpet pythons. Doctors extracted a 3.1-inch living roundworm from her brain after more than a year of worsening symptoms, according to a case study in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases. It also may be the […]
In 1917, a Franco-Canadian scientist pioneered a treatment that’s become a powerful weapon against antibiotic-resistant infections. It should be available here. (Illustration by Pete Ryan) I have a clear memory of sitting on a Toronto-area park bench in 1985 as my dad—a computer executive and jack-of-all-trades—explained the arms race between our cells and a new […]
Tracy Ridout dies after catching rare infection from dog bite By Kylie Stevens For Daily Mail Australia Updated: 12:22 EDT, 29 August 2023
The CDC issued a health alert on Monday after a third state, Maryland, identified a case of malaria. As with previous malaria cases in Florida and Texas, the disease was locally acquired — meaning, the patient contracted from the bite of an infected mosquito while at home, not during international travel — which prompted the […]
A new study is offering data to back one of the core assumptions about the spread of Covid: The intensity of exposure to the virus matters, and vaccines and prior infections can only help so much — but they do indeed help. The research, led by scientists at the Yale School of Public Health and […]