In late December 2015, new cases of Kyasanur Forest disease (KFD), or monkey fever, occurred in the Mauxi region of the Thane village panchayat in southwestern India, according to the Indian newspaper...

Francisella philomiragia is a distant cousin to Francisella tularensis, the cause of tularemia or “rabbit fever.”  Unlike tularemia, however, F. philomiragia is an opportunistic pathogen that very...

According to an Indian online newspaper, there has been a recent spike in the number of cases of leptospirosis – a water-borne zoonotic disease – in the Uttara Kannada district of India.  Uttara...

Bacteria are all around us, we are told. However, according to the National Institutes of Health, less than 1% of them cause disease in people. Well, that list may have just gotten a little bigger. A 47-year-old...

It was recently revealed that in 2012 Australia experienced its largest outbreak of Q fever associated with a single farm in the country’s history, according to a report that aired earlier this month...

In 2002, a brand new virus was discovered – not in the jungles of Africa – but in an unlikely place, a biotech company in suburban Maryland. The Seneca Valley virus was originally isolated as a contaminant...

If being infested with maggots wasn’t bad enough, it turns out that they can carry bacteria that can be worse, even deadly.  A 69-year-old French man apparently died of just such a bacterial infection,...

A new disease of snakes has been quietly spreading across the U.S. The disease known as Snake Fungal Disease (SFD) is believed to be caused by a fungus called Ophidiomyces ophiodiicola and so far has been...

Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is widespread in India – at least in livestock – according to new research published this month in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases.  Investigators from...