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Wiltshire anthrax: 2nd cow dies likely from the bacterium

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In a follow-up to a report concerning the 1st animal anthrax case in Great Britain in 9 years, the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and Animal and Plant Health Agency has...

Syracuse: Legionnaires’ disease at St. Joseph’s. Results pending, interviews coming

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There has been a lot of secrecy and unanswered questions surrounding a Legionella outbreak at St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center in Syracuse, NY as detailed in a report by James Mulder at Syracuse.com. What...

1.5 million people killed by TB globally in 2014: WHO

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The fight against tuberculosis is paying off, with this year’s death rate nearly half of what it was in 1990. Nevertheless, 1.5 million people died from TB in 2014. Most of these deaths could have been...

Iraq cholera outbreak tops 2000 cases

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The number of laboratory-confirmed cholera cases in the current outbreak in Iraq is now at 2,055  since September 15, 2015, according to the World Health Organization Tuesday. The UN agency says as an...

Madagascar reports 10th circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 1 of 2015

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One new case of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 1 (cVDPV1) was reported in the past week in Madagascar, with onset of paralysis on 22 August from Sud-Ouest province, according to the Global...

Witnessing The Revolution In Medicine

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The non-stop advance of science in all fields is a fascinating process. Knowing how differently things are done today compared to fifty or even twenty years ago, we can see what an incredible world we...

Dengue fever in Taiwan: Nearly double previous high

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The number of dengue fever cases in Taiwan continue to rise as the country’s Center for Disease Control (CDC) reported an additional 328 cases. This brings the total cases on the island country to 28,429...

Fish recalls due to botulism risk: Sockeye Suzy’s and CSFPDX

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Two companies issued recalls of various fish due to the risk of Clostridium botulinum, the agent of the dangerous foodborne illness, botulism. Sockeye Suzy’s Fish Co. of White Swan, Washington is voluntarily...

Bristol-Myers Squibb’s Yervoy receives FDA nod for use as adjuvant therapy for patients with stage III melanoma

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Today the U.S. Food and Drug Administration expanded the approved use of Yervoy (ipilimumab) to include a new use as adjuvant therapy for patients with stage III melanoma, to lower the risk that the melanoma...

Australia’s largest ever farm-based outbreak of Q fever

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It was recently revealed that in 2012 Australia experienced its largest outbreak of Q fever associated with a single farm in the country’s history, according to a report that aired earlier this month...