Category Archives: Infection

UNSW Sydney has paid tribute to Professor Emeritus Mary-Louise McLaws AO, who worked tirelessly as a world-leading epidemiologist with expertise in hospital infection and infectious diseases control. She played a hugely influential role in spearheading major widespread improvements in infection control, helping save innumerable lives over the last 30-plus years.   In her most recent […]

NewsDesk @bactiman63 In a follow-up on the whooping cough, or pertussis situation in Denmark, new figures from the Statens Serum Institut (SSI) show that the respiratory infection remains at a high level. Bordetella pertussisImage/CDC The infection figures look like this throughout the country: July: 291 cases, June: 290 cases and May: 104 cases. In the month […]

The World Health Organization (WHO) reported that global COVID-19 cases have increased by 80% in the past four weeks due to a wave of infections in South Korea. The WHO explained that many health networks have stopped reporting infections, with 46% fewer reports in Europe and 42% fewer in the Americas. In the Asia-Pacific region, […]

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Air pollution is linked with many health problems. Credit: Saurav022/ Shutterstock Antibiotic resistance is a growing threat to global health. In 2019, it caused more than 1.27 million deaths worldwide—and it’s projected that antimicrobial resistance (which includes bacterial resistance to antibiotics) may contribute to 10 million deaths per year by 2050. Antibiotics are used to […]

Real Kosher Ice Cream recalled its soft-serve 8-oz. on-the-go cups, which were distributed in 20 states including California, Colorado, New York, New Jersey and Virginia. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a warning about a bacteria that may have made some of the Jewish company’s dessert products especially dangerous for young children, frail or […]

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — An investigation found that the woman who visited a New Taipei indoor aquatic facility and subsequently died from a rare brain-eating amoeba infection had not visited other places for aquatic activities, according to health authorities. Marking the first such case in Taiwan in 12 years, a Taipei resident in her 30s […]

A fast-spreading new COVID-19 variant called EG.5 is now the dominant strain in the U.S. Data gathered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) between July 23 to Aug. 5 showed that 17.3% of new COVID-19 cases nationwide were caused by EG.5 — also known as “Eris” — up from 7.5% the first […]

A new Covid-19 variant has entered the scene, becoming the most prevalent strain in the U.S. However, it may not be as dangerous as the ones that came before. The new variant, Eris (formerly called EG.5), accounts for approximately 17% of new Covid cases, according to an estimate by the Centers for Disease Control and […]

The upsurge of HIV cases in Georgia Tengiz Tsertsvadze, the director of Tbilisi Infectious Diseases Hospital, has called upon the population, particularly the youth, to diligently adhere to safety guidelines and recommendations to safeguard themselves from HIV infection. As per Tsertsvadze, during the initial six months of 2023, in comparison to the same timeframe last […]