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Halloween and COVID-19: Mitigating exposure risk

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By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 New research shows that COVID-19 exposure risk from contaminated candy could be successfully mitigated both by washing hands and washing candy using a simple at-home method....

Schistosomiasis case reported in Germany, Travel history to Corsica

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By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 In a report posted on the infectious disease website, ProMED-Mail Friday, officials in Munich reported a case of  urogenital schistosomiasis in a 49-year-old German man with...

Chagas disease: Research shows stronger but less frequent drug doses could be key to cure

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By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 Researchers in the University of Georgia’s Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases have found that a more intensive, less frequent drug regimen with currently...

Ontario: Salmonella outbreak linked to the Barakat restaurant in Sarnia

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By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 In the city of Sarnia in Southwestern Ontario, Canada, officials with Lambton Public Health (LPH) report investigating an outbreak of Salmonella infection in people who recently...

Philippines COVID-19: DOH enhances reporting, 4 Manila facilities completed, PBA season

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By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 COVID-19 cases The Department of Health (DOH) on Saturday reported an additional 1796 COVID-19 cases across the country, bringing the pandemic total to 380,729. Rizal and Davao...

Vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks were sustained at ICE detention centers

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More than a dozen U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers experienced large, repeated outbreaks of vaccine-preventable illnesses in the last three years, according to a new study...

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Powassan virus: New synthetic DNA vaccine designed and tested

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Scientists at The Wistar Institute have designed and tested the first-of-its-kind synthetic DNA vaccine against Powassan virus (POWV), targeting portions of the virus envelope protein. A rapidly reemerging...

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CDC Announces 2 Mystery Ecoli Outbreaks

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By: Candess Zona-Mendola of MakeFoodSafe This week, the CDC announced two E. coli O157 outbreaks in the US. The first outbreak has 21 sick in 8 states, and the second outbreak has 23 sick in 12 states. The...

Scrapie case reported on Iceland farm

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By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 The Chief Veterinary Officer for the Icelandic Food and Veterinary Authority, Dr Sigurborg Daðadóttir reported to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) this week a...

AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate: UH Cleveland Medical Center has been selected as a clinical trial site for the Phase 3 global study

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University Hospitals (UH) and Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) announced today that UH Cleveland Medical Center has been selected as a clinical trial site for the Phase 3 global study of an investigational...