NewsDesk @bactiman63 In a follow-up on a report early last week, Washington State Department of Health (DOH) and Public Health—Seattle and King County (PHSKC) announced the first confirmed case of monkeypox in...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Ministry of Health confirmed the first imported case of monkeypox, detected in Mexico City. This is a 50-year-old man with mild symptoms, who is preventively isolated. The person...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 On Thursday, Virginia state health officials reported on a presumed monkeypox case in a resident. The next day, they announced the CDC has confirmed that the Virginia patient tested...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The National Ministry of Health reports that the result of the PCR amplification reaction of the sample taken from the second high-probability case is positive, which confirms the...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Directorate-General for Health (DGS) confirms 16 more cases of human infection with the Monkeypox virus in Portugal, with a total of 74 cases so far. Most infections have been...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Health officials with the Scioto County Health Department reported this week they can confirm the cause of an outbreak at at Camp Molly Lauman in Lucasville two weeks ago was caused...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Colorado health officials have reported two presumptive monkeypox cases in consecutive days this week. The first case who acquired the virus recently traveled to Canada where an outbreak...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 A second fatality due to Japanese encephalitis (JE) has been reported in New South Wales, according to NSW Health this week. The case was a man in his 60s from the Corowa area, who...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 In a follow-up on the COVID-19 epidemic in North Korea, state media (KCNA) reports the following today: According to the notification of the National Emergency Management Command,...

A common culprit of skin and respiratory infections, Staphylococcus aureus is highly unpredictable. Between 20 and 30 percent of people carry quiet colonies on their skin and in their nostrils, which...