Rokote Laboratories Finland Ltd., a newly-founded academic spin-out based in Finland is working to develop and introduce to the markets a nasal spray vaccine against COVID. The vaccine is based on research...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 Last month, officials with the Gorgas Institute in Panama identified the first person with COVID-19 reinfection. “We have already reported the first case of reinfection confirmed...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 The Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH) is reporting a Salmonella outbreak which is geographically spread over large parts of country. Twenty cases have been reported–12...

Diphtheria – a relatively easily-preventable infection – is evolving to become resistant to a number of classes of antibiotics and in future could lead to vaccine escape, warn an international...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 With the addition of 80,508 new COVID-19 cases in Brazil during the past 24 hours, the pandemic case count in the country has reached 11,019,344 confirmed cases of the disease. Regarding...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 The Minister of Health, Enrique Paris, reported that, according to a Minsal study, 68.4% of active cases as of March 4, 2021 are related to outbreaks and clusters and of these,...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 A new study published in the journal, Science China Life Sciences, Chinese researchers with the Harbin Veterinary Research Institute in Heilongjiang report the discovery of new...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 A patient in Karachi has been diagnosed with Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF), according to a report in The Nation. “A patient infected with CCHF has been admitted at...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 Hispaniola is the second largest island in the Caribbean1 (after Cuba) and is comprised of two countries: Haiti and the Dominican Republic. To date in the Western hemisphere,...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 The number of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) cases and deaths have risen to 29 cases and 13 deaths as of Saturday, according to the World Health Organization. On 6 February 2021,...