NewsDesk @bactiman63 On today’s livestream I’ll be looking at the situation with hepatitis of unknown origin in children worldwide, MERS in Qatar, the latest from North Korea state media on...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The National IHR Focal Point of Qatar has reported two confirmed cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) from late March to early April, according to the...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) declared that a case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) has been confirmed. The case is a male resident aged 50 years. The patient has been...

Multiple tissues of the male genital tract can be infected with SARS-CoV-2, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study in large animal models. The study, in SARS-CoV-2 infected-rhesus macaques, revealed...

NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews A new study, published in Nature Communications and led by Imperial College London researchers, provides the first evidence of a protective role for these T cells. While...

NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Bolivian government declared a health emergency on Thursday after the daily cases of COVID-19 increased almost fivefold in less than a week; despite the fact...

NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Saudi Arabia Ministry of Health reported four additional Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) cases going back at least two months. The four cases...

NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Philippines health officials reported 356 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, which is the lowest single day total in 17 months on the archipelago. Active cases declined...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 The Swedish Public Health Agency, or Folkhälsomyndigheten (computer translated) reported today on a case of the Omicron coronavirus variant in a person who recently returned...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63  For the week ending November 20, Costa Rica health officials reported 1,362 cases of COVID-19, while the week prior, which spanned November 7 to 13, accounted for 1,723 cases....