By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Researchers at the University of Oxford on Monday launched a Phase 1 trial to test a new vaccine against plague. Based on the ChAdOx1 adenovirus viral vector platform...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Health authorities in Volyn Oblast report a tularemia case in a woman from the village of Sadiv in Lutsk district. According to the results of the epidemiological...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Ukraine health officials reported this week a fatal case of botulism in Chernihiv region. The patient was a 74-year-old man who fell ill after eating home-made blood...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Swedish Public Health Agency reports the spread of COVID-19 is increasing in the metropolitan regions but is still at a low level nationally. During the week...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Swedish Public Health Agency, or Folkhalsomyndigheten, reported today 13 cases of the more serious form of vibrio infection, all in July. The cases have been...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The majority of those infected with the coronavirus had neutralizing antibodies after more than a year, according to a study by the National Institute for Health and...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews A resident of Donetsk town in Rostov Oblast has died from rabies following a stray cat bite in April, according to the Rospotrebnadzor administration in the Rostov...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Swedish Public Health Agency conducts recurring  seroepidemiological examinations in which the presence of antibodies for detection of the covid-19 review is...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Scientists from Robert Koch Institute report a significant decrease in case notifications for almost all notifiable diseases during the first months of COVID-19 pandemic...

A coronavirus related to the virus that causes Covid-19 in humans has been found in UK horseshoe bats – according to new collaborative research from the University of East Anglia, ZSL (Zoological...