Category Archives: Infection

Salmonella outbreak linked to cantaloupe rages across 15 states

Dozens of people across 15 states have become sick after contracting salmonella from cantaloupes included in a recent recall, according to U.S. health officials. At least 43 people in 15 states have been infected in the salmonella outbreak, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention announced Friday. Seventeen of those people have been hospitalized. Several […]

Diseases spread in Gaza amid water and sewage crisis, cholera feared

Khan Younis, Gaza – Sewage flows in the streets of Gaza as all key sanitation services have ceased operating, raising the alarming prospect of an enormous surge of gastrointestinal and infectious diseases among the local populations – including cholera. For Gaza’s 2.3 million residents, finding drinkable water has become close to impossible. At a school […]

Gareth Southgate slammed over Raheem Sterling and Jack Grealish England issue

Former Premier League manager Graeme Souness has claimed that Chelsea star Raheem Sterling is ‘more dangerous’ than England teammate Jack Grealish after he was snubbed by England manager Gareth Southgate for the fifth successive time. The Blues forward was once again left out of the Three Lions squad despite being one of Chelsea’s top-performing stars […]

Salmonella-infected cantaloupes leave dozens sick in 15 states: health officials

Dozens of people across 15 states have become sick after contracting salmonella from cantaloupes included in a recent recall, according to U.S. health officials. At least 43 people in 15 states have been infected in the salmonella outbreak, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention announced Friday. Seventeen of those people have been hospitalized. Several […]

Poultry vaccine China’s ‘best defence’ as bird flu spreads from Europe, Africa

Lead author Vijaykrishna Dhanasekaran, who heads the HKU pathogen evolution lab, urged China to guard against strains of the virus arriving from Europe by keeping up its vaccination programme against bird flu infections among the country’s flocks. Why sick minks are reigniting worries about bird flu spreading to humans “Especially since the emergence of H7N9 […]

Third transplant patient dies with fungal infection in Queensland

A Queensland hospital has defended its clinical procedures after a patient died from a fungal infection earlier this year. Radiographer Jurgen Zoller died after contracting Fusarium Solani following a bone marrow transplant at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital (RBWH) in March. It follows two separate patient deaths at the Prince Charles Hospital that could […]

Diagnostic performance of ultrasensitive rapid diagnostic test for the detection of Plasmodium falciparum infections in asymptomatic individuals in Kisangani, Northeast Democratic Republic of Congo

WHO. World malaria report 2022. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2022. Google Scholar  PNLP, Swiss TPH, KSPH, INRB and INFORM. An epidemiological profile of malaria in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A report prepared for the Federal Ministry of Health, Democratic Republic of Congo, the Roll Back Malaria Partnership and the Department for International Development, UK. […]

VIDEO: AI could ‘shift’ practice in pediatric infectious diseases

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Seroprevalence and risk factors for Neospora spp. infection in equine in Egypt

Abstract Neospora infections in equine are associated with reproductive disorders and neurological diseases. Nevertheless, Egypt has no epidemiological information on this parasite in equine. This study determined the prevalence of Neospora spp. infection in 325 equines from three Egyptian governorates located at Northern Egypt using cELISA. The prevalence of antibodies against Neospora spp. was 19% (95% […]