Measles outbreaks across Europe and Central Asia intensified in the first quarter of 2024, with incidence rates of up to hundreds of times higher than the United States. One of the worst-affected areas...

Valneva SE announced this week that the first participant has been vaccinated in the Phase 2 clinical trial evaluating the safety and Immunogenicity in children of two different dose levels of Valneva’s...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 In EU/EEA countries, 281 cases of diphtheria were confirmed through TESSy from January 2022 to 11 August 2023 (for comparison: an average of 55 cases were reported annually between...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Institute of Public Health of the Republic of North Macedonia reported of a confirmed case of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) in  a 27-year-old woman from the village...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) reports on a Salmonella Senftenberg outbreak affecting more than a dozen countries since August 2022. Through July 12,...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Scientists from Lund University in Sweden collaborated with microbiologists in Ukraine to investigate bacterial resistance in war-wounded patients treated in hospitals. The findings,...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Health authorities in Lithuania report an outbreak of legionellosis, or Legionnaires’ disease in the Kaunas district. According to the latest data from officials, a total...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 From late February 2023 to 10 March 2023, 67 cases of botulism, probably of iatrogenic origin, related to intragastric injection of botulinum toxin (BTX) were reported in Germany...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Denmark’s Statens Serum Institut (SSI) reports more and more people in Denmark are currently being diagnosed with an infection with group A streptococci, and the increase has...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Researchers at the University of Valencia on Spain’s southeastern coast have detected the parasite, Angiostrongylus cantonensis, aka the rat lungworm in two different species of rats...