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Brazil yellow fever: Human death recorded in Amapá state, Monkey deaths in Santa Catarina
Riyadh man is Saudi Arabia’s 10th MERS case of 2021
Animal diseases
San Diego Zoo reports COVID-19 positive snow leopard

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The San Diego Zoo reported Friday that a male snow leopard is suspected to be positive for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. The big...

Taiwan reports 1st rabies case in Yellow-throated marten

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Taiwan Animal and Plant Quarantine Bureau announced this week the first positive case of yellow-throated marten rabies in the country. To...

Texas reports anthrax in white-tailed deer
Texas reports rise in rabies in cattle
Research
Recovered COVID-19 patients retain broad and effective longer-term immunity to the disease: Emory study
COVID-19

Recovered COVID-19 patients retain broad and effective longer-term immunity to the disease, suggests a recent Emory University study, which is the most comprehensive of its kind so...

Malaria in Malaysia: Plasmodium cynomolgi human infections widely distributed according to researchers

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Researchers from several Malaysian universities looked at using molecular techniques to see if human infections with simian malaria parasites were present among...

Singapore scientists develop 30-minute malaria test
Penn State research suggest that global warming could limit the spread of dengue fever
Africa
Nigeria cholera outbreak grows, Eyes on Lagos state

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Nigerian health officials continue to report an increase in cholera cases across the country. In the week ending July 11, eight states and Federal...

Eid-el-Kabir in Nigeria: Public health advisory issued over high risk of spread of COVID-19
Nigeria reports uptick in confirmed monkeypox cases in 2021
Asia
Philippines reports 55 additional Delta variant cases

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Philippines Department of Health (DOH) reported an additional 55 Delta (B.1.617.2) variant cases Monday, bringing the total to 119. Of the 55 new Delta variant...

Malaria in Malaysia: Plasmodium cynomolgi human infections widely distributed according to researchers
Thailand reports record 15K COVID-19 cases Sunday
Europe
Ukraine: Woman contracts tularemia in Volyn Oblast

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...

Ukraine reports botulism death in Chernihiv region

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...

Sweden reports increase of COVID-19 spread in metro areas, AstraZeneca vaccine is discontinued
Sweden reports 13 Vibrio infections this July
US News
Shingles vaccine, Shingrix, gets FDA approval for prevention in immunocompromised adults

NewsDesk @bactiman63 GlaxoSmithKline today announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Shingrix (Zoster Vaccine Recombinant, Adjuvanted) for the prevention...

Antibiotics: DALVANCE receives FDA approval

AbbVie announced Friday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved DALVANCE® (dalbavancin) for the treatment of acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections (ABSSSI)...

Powassan virus: 2nd case reported in Maine in 2021
South Carolina officials say more than two dozen people exposed to rabid puppy
Latin America and the Caribbean
Brazil yellow fever: Human death recorded in Amapá state, Monkey deaths in Santa Catarina

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Government of Amapá confirmed Wednesday one death from yellow fever in the city of Macapá. The patient was a 21-year-old man who was hospitalized at the Oswaldo...

Argentina reports more Delta variants in travelers
Costa Rica COVID-19: Deaths increase week over week, Delta variant identified
Outbreak News Interviews
India reports surge of mucormycosis cases. What do we know and not know?

By Robert Herriman  @infectiousdiseasenews There has been a surge in mucormycosis cases, aka the “black fungus”, in India. Why mucormycosis and why India? Is it linked...

Will SARS-CoV-2 become just another common cold?
Campylobacter can also be spread through sexual contact: OU study