Two weeks ago, the Ministry of Health of Benin reported an outbreak of Lassa fever in Borgou Department, located in the north-eastern part of Benin. The outbreak involves a family of four (three Beninese...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Malaysia Ministry of Health reports today there are there are 14 newly reported COVID-19 cases. As previously announced, the first wave of Coronavirus 2019...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) have reported two presumptive positive test results for COVID-19, the disease caused by the new 2019...

A group of University of Alberta researchers who have discovered why the drug remdesivir is effective in treating the coronaviruses that cause Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) and severe acute respiratory...

A multi-center study (n=101) of the relationship between chest CT findings and the clinical conditions of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pneumonia–published ahead-of-print and open-access in the American...

Results were recently published in a study in  the Journal of Clinical Microbiology that show  limitations of currently available diagnostic tests for early-stage Lyme disease, and highlight the need...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Public Health – Seattle & King County announced today seven additional cases of COVID-19 in King County residents. With these seven new results, the total number...

Massachusetts health officials its first presumptive positive case of COVID-19 since testing started Friday, February 28, at the State Public Health Laboratory. The woman is in her 20s and lives in Norfolk...

Georgia state officials reported two confirmed cases of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) involving two residents of Fulton County who live in the same household. One recently returned from Italy. Both...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Deputy Health Minister,  Dr. Alireza Reiisi, said today that 835 additional coronavirus cases (COVID-19) were reported in Iran, bringing the total count to 2,336....