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Philippines: Filariasis case reported in Koronadal City

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 Health officials in South Cotabato are reporting a filariasis case in a remote sitio in Koronadal City. The individual in Sitio El Lalam, Barangay Assumption  tested positive of...

Paraguay: Chikungunya cases total 5,625 in the last three weeks

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 The latest report from the General Directorate of Health Surveillance in Paraguay indicates a progressive increase in cases of chikungunya. In the three epidemiological weeks evaluated...

Bangladesh researchers: Transfer of immunity against Nipah virus from mother to child confirmed for the first time

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 Recently, a novel finding by icddr,b (formerly known as the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh) scientists, and partners published in the journal of...

Uruguay warns of traveler’s diarrhea risk in some tourist destinations in Brazil

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Uruguay Ministry of Public Health received information of an increase in cases of diarrhea in some residents of some municipalities in Brazil that are regular tourist destinations....

Bolivia reports 255 pertussis cases, Dengue fever update

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 Whooping cough The Ministry of Health and Sports in Bolivia reported Wednesday the total accumulated cases of Coqueluche, or whooping cough in the country reached 255, of which 176...

Bolivia dengue cases top 1,000, Santa Cruz reports most cases

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 In a follow-up on the dengue fever outbreak in Bolivia in early 2023, the Ministry of Health and Sports reports that through January 24, 1,010 total dengue fever cases have been reported. The...

Pakistan: Wild poliovirus detected in an environmental sample in Lahore

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 Pakistan’s first detection of wild poliovirus in 2023 has been detected in an environmental sample in Lahore. The virus found in Gulshan Ravi has links to a poliovirus found in...

First patient has been dosed in the PHAGE clinical trial, evaluating bacteriophage therapy in adults with cystic fibrosis who carry Pseudomonas aeruginosa in their lungs

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Adaptive Phage Therapeutics, Inc., (APT) a clinical-stage biotechnology company advancing the APT phage bank, the world’s largest therapeutic phage initiative for treatment of bacterial infectious diseases,...

Philippines reports increases in most infectious diseases in 2022

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Philippines Department of Health released the last Epidemic- prone Disease Case Surveillance (EDCS) report for 2022 today covering from January 1 to December 31 and it shows that...

Guinea Worm Disease: ‘We are heartened that eradication can be achieved soon,’ says former President Carter

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Carter Center announced today that in 2022, only 13 human cases of Guinea worm disease were reported worldwide. The provisional figure is the lowest annual case total ever reported....