Hospitalized COVID-19 patients have a greater risk of dying if they are men or if they are obese or have complications from diabetes or hypertension, according to a new study conducted by University of...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 In a follow-up on the new variant of the virus that causes COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) that has been identified across the South East of England, Chief Medical Officer for England,...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 Health officials in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) of northern Luzon in the Philippines have reported a decrease in incidence in 20 out of 21 monitored infectious...

Bruker Corporation announced Friday the launch of the FluoroType SARS-CoV-2/Flu/RSV winter four-plex PCR panel, which enables the sensitive and simultaneous detection of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, of both...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 After reporting a decline in the number of COVID-19 cases since the peak in August, Philippines health officials are seeing a slowing down of the previous improvement in the...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 Officials with the Scottish government have confirmed a flock of birds from a farm on the Island of Sanday in Orkney has tested positive for H5N8 avian influenza. In order to...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 Cambridge, MA  biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines, Moderna, Inc., announced Friday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 The French Public Health Unit in the region, ARS is reporting that the department of Réunion Island, located in the Indian Ocean, has recorded 16,055 cases indigenous confirmed...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 The Saudi Arabia Ministry of Health (MOH) have reported three confirmed cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS-CoV) infection since December 1. The cases are as follows: One...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 According to a new study published in the journal, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Naegleria fowleri is a free-living ameba that causes primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM),...