Climate change threatens to create more endemic regions in Africa.
The investigation revealed that 170 people—many of them in high-risk groups—may have been exposed to TB, a number expected to grow.
Having tools to identify outbreaks early is crucial for containing outbreaks for both dangerous pathogens.
Some arenaviruses cause hemorrhagic fevers, including Lassa virus--a priority pathogen for vaccine development.
The COVID-19 emergency committee will meet on May 4 to assess if the situation still warrants a public health emergency of international concern.
Nigeria is seeing a Lassa fever spike, Paraguay reports its first local measles case since 1998, and 5 nations have new polio cases.
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) yesterday issued a warning about an ongoing outbreak of the multidrug-resistant yeast Candida auris in Italy.
The Commonwealth Pharmacists Association (CPA) last week announced a new program to improve surveillance and prescribing of antimicrobials in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) .
People who received a different brand of COVID-19 vaccine booster than they did in the primary series had lower rates of infection than those who received the same brand, according to a study in Singapore published late last week in JAMA.
Global flu activity shows more signs of decline after peaking at the end of 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in its latest global flu update, which covers roughly the middle 2 weeks of January.