Researchers are a step closer to developing a treatment for the deadly Nipah virus, a disease transmitted by fruit bats that has a high mortality rate. The disease is most common in Asia and South Asia. Nipah virus...
Three babies have been declared HIV-free after being treated with a revolutionary new drug only hours after they were born. The fourth child only has ‘a very low level’ of the virus after receiving the same...
Some harmful bacteria are increasingly resistant to treatment with antibiotics. A discovery might be able to help the antibiotics treat the disease. A soil sample from a national park in eastern Canada has produced a...
The H7N9 bird flu virus, which has caused severe illness and deaths in China, may inhabit only a fraction of its potential range and could possibly spread to India, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines...
The deadly MERS virus remains a serious public health problem, especially with the approach of haj pilgrimages, but a recent surge in Saudi cases of the respiratory disease appears to be abating, the World Health...
Researchers from the Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group, co-ordinated through the editorial base in LSTM, conducted an independent review of the effects of treating cholera with antimicrobial drugs, published in The...
A real-time early warning system to raise alerts about serious immunisation reactions and infectious disease outbreaks among children is to be rolled out for the first time across Victoria’s pediatric hospitals...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that it had recorded the largest number of reported measles cases in the U.S. during the first five months of any year since 1994. The CDC saw 288 reported cases...
Antibiotics were “niet” during the Soviet era and, as an alternative, doctors used viruses to cure infections, and this idea is now being considered in the U.S. Overuse of these drugs has produced bacterial resistance...
A 2012 article detailing how Americans have died over the years is gaining new attention after being reworked by a computer scientist. In the last 200 years, the biggest difference in how Americans die is the enormous...