On Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published an expanded list of who is at increased risk for getting severely ill from COVID-19. In addition to what we already knew–older...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Malaysia’s Ministry of Health reported an additional human rabies death in Sarawak state. The case was a 62-year-old man from Sibu who passed away on Tuesday. The...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Health officials in Stanislaus County, California have s confirmed the first two human West Nile virus (WNV) infections in the county. Both were adult males and did...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews In New Zealand, officials are encouraging the public to ensure they cook raw mussels thoroughly after an increase in cases of food poisoning associated with commercially...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews India has the highest TB burden in the world and India’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare recently released the India TB report 2020 that showed over 24.04...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews After some 23 months and nearly 2300 deaths, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Ministry of Health announced the 10th Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in the...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews On Wednesday, the Brazil Ministry of Health registered 42,725  COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the country’s total to 1,188,631 confirmed cases...

NeuroRx, Inc., in partnership with RELIEF THERAPEUTICS Holding AG today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) awarded Fast Track Designation to NeuroRx for the investigation of RLF-100...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews In a follow-up on the outbreak of Salmonella infections linked to contact with live poultry, 368 additional cases were reported in the past month, bringing the total...

By Jory Lange Swan Bros. Dairy in Claremore, Oklahoma is recalling its raw milk.  The Oklahoma State Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry found Campylobacter bacteria in a sample collected from...