NewsDesk @bactiman63 From late February 2023 to 10 March 2023, 67 cases of botulism, probably of iatrogenic origin, related to intragastric injection of botulinum toxin (BTX) were reported in Germany...

Researchers have identified a compound that strongly inhibits botulinum neurotoxin, the most toxic compound known. That inhibiting compound, nitrophenyl psoralen (NPP), could be used as a treatment to...

Enterococci are hardy microbes that thrive in the gastrointestinal tracts of nearly all land animals, including our own, and generally cause no harm. But their ruggedness has lately made them leading...

Botulinum toxins are currently used on more than 80 medical conditions including Muscle spasms, Overactive bladder, Chronic migraine, Cervical dystonia, Sweating and Cerebral Palsy (CP). The new toxin,...

The Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection (CHP) of the Department of Health (DH) is today investigating a probable case of botulism after receiving injections of botulinum toxin locally, and again urged...

It is not just a matter of time when the biological terrorism will hit our world with no mercy.  It is also a matter of choice what agent we will be attacked with. There are no right or wrong pathogens...

Botulism is a rare but serious and potentially fatal paralytic disease. It is caused by a potent neurotoxin called botulinum toxin (BTX), which is excreted by an anaerobic and spore-forming bacterium,...

The Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection (CHP) of the Department of Health (DH) is  investigating a suspected case of botulism, the ninth case, and again stressed to the public that such injections...

The Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection (CHP) of the Department of Health (DH) is investigating an additional suspected case of botulism after receiving injections of botulinum toxin in the Mainland,...

The Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection (CHP) of the Department of Health (DH) is investigating a suspected case of botulism after receiving injections of botulinum toxin in the Mainland, and hence...