By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews In August, two cases of tetanus among children were registered in the Altai Territory in southern Siberia, according to the regional department of Rospotrebnadzor. Their...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Rospotrebnadzor Administration for the Republic of Tyva, aka Tuva reports ona a confirmed diagnosis of anthrax in a 29-year-old resident of the Bizhiktig-Khaya...

Researchers from Sechenov University together with colleagues from several Russian institutes analysed data on the RNA structure of tick-borne encephalitis virus. Much larger than in previous studies,...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Armenia health ministry officials reported three additional human cutaneous anthrax cases in the village of Geghhovit, Gegharkunik Province, bringing the total cases...

The rise of anthrax from the permafrost this summer in Siberia, plus the risk of overgrazing has prompted officials on the Yamal Peninsula of Siberia to plan a mass cull of 250,000 reindeer by years end,...

The anthrax outbreak in the Yamal Peninsula in of northern Siberia, Russia, that began in mid-July has resulted in the death of 2,349 reinderr, according to the World Organisation for Animal Health...

The number of confirmed anthrax cases in the Siberia outbreak has grown to 20, up from nine yesterday. In addition, the Siberian Times reports that at least six of the cases are the severe gastrointestinal...

THE NEW OUTBREAK IN SIBERIA SHOWS HOW WE ARE NOT PREPARED The medical history of the world is full of deadly diseases which have been destructive for the people and which have humiliated the whole mankind....

A 12-year-old boy is the first fatality in the anthrax outbreak that recently struck the Yamal Peninsula in northern Siberia, Russia, according to a Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Region government news release...

A day after Yamal, Siberia Governor Dmitry Kobylkin, declared a state of emergency because of an anthrax outbreak, the first in the region in 75 years, specialists from the Russian Chemical, Radioactive...