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Chicago Department of Public Health Commissioner Allison Arwady, M.D., Thursday issued an Emergency Travel Order directing travelers entering or returning to Chicago from states experiencing a surge in...

Researchers have shown that a variation in the viral genome of Covid-19 improved its ability to infect human cells and helped it become the dominant strain circulating around the world today. The study,...

For the first time, scientists have shown that the bacterium that causes the tick-borne disease anaplasmosis interferes with tick gene expression for its survival inside cells and to spread to a new vertebrate...

On June 22, 2020, The Saudi Ministry of Hajj and Umrah announced that only people who currently reside in country will be permitted to make the pilgrimage this year due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The...

Altimmune, Inc. announced today dosing of the first patient in the Company’s Phase 1b clinical trial of NasoShield, a single dose intranasal anthrax vaccine candidate. “NasoShield is the only single...

Researchers report a swine influenza virus prevalent in China with the potential for pandemic spread in humans. Pigs are a key intermediate host, or “mixing vessel,” in the development of...

Raw or unpasteurized cows’ milk from U.S. retail stores can hold a huge amount of antimicrobial-resistant genes if left at room temperature, according to a new study from researchers at the University...

Scientists have new evidence that overactive neutrophils–a common type of circulating immune cell–may drive the life-threatening blood clots and inflammation that occur in some patients with...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH) reported Friday on the first human case of West Nile Virus (WNV) for 2020. The case was reported in Claiborne County. “This...

There’s some good news in New Jersey about a potentially deadly tick-borne bacterium. Rutgers researchers examined more than 3,000 ticks in the Garden State and found only one carrying Rickettsia...