NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Ministry of Health and the communities have activated the health alert for monkeypox , a very rare disease caused by a virus endemic to central and western Africa, after the...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 This weekend, the World Health Organization (WHO) published an outbreak overview of the acute, severe hepatitis of unknown origin in children. Here is some of that information: As...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 In a follow-up on the higher than usual rates of liver inflammation (hepatitis) in children in the United Kingdom from the beginning of the month, the European Centre for Disease...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Health officials report investigating the source of eight cases of Q fever detected in the last week in different areas of Asturias to prevent its spread, according to an El Comercio...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 More than 50,000 people in Spain live with Chagas , of which 613 are children, according to estimates from an analysis led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal),...

In a recent study published in the Journal of Hepatology last month, researchers describe the first cases of acute hepatitis related to Orthohepevirus C infection (HEV-C), also known as rat Hepatitis E...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has detected an increase in drug-resistant Shigella sonnei infections, mostly in men who have sex with men (MSM).  Currently,...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Andalusian Government is investigating a case of malaria in a woman who has developed the disease after giving birth last December at the Quirónsalud Campo de Gibraltar private...

NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) announced today an outbreak of avian influenza in domestic birds in Spain. The highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu virus on...

NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Health officials in the European Union and European Economic Area (EU/EEA) have reported 402 total Omicron cases in 21 countries through December 9. Although cases reported...