Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) said today it was part of an international multisite study evaluating ZMapp, an experimental Ebola treatment. ZMapp contains three antibodies and is being used in the current outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
If used for 30 seconds or more, a variety of hand sanitizers kill the virus.
The number of Americans hospitalized with COVID-19 continues a record-breaking rise.
The Texas Department of State Health Services said today that clinicians should consider testing patients who complain of lingering diarrhea for Cyclospora, a parasite that can cause severe diarrheal illness.
A new Ebola species first identified in bats last year in Sierra Leone—named Bombali virus— has now been found in bats in Kenya, pointing to wide distribution, given that the two countries are on opposite coasts of Africa. Researchers from Finland, Kenya, and Sweden reported their findings in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
The investigators also cultured infectious H5N1 virus from milk and cattle samples taken from 2 Texas dairy farms.
(CIDRAP News) – To mark World Malaria Day, global health groups today warned that funding cuts could erode progress in fighting the disease, a point that was underscored by a new study that highlighted wavering support and a dramatic increase in disease activity in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
In addition, the World Health Organization (WHO) and other agencies announced new strategies to fight the disease.
Antimicrobial sales for pigs and aquaculture, however, rose by 15% and 74%, respectively.
The dog became ill after playing with a dead goose.
The latest confirmations also include more wild birds and small mammals from Weld County, a Colorado hit hard by dairy cow and poultry outbreaks.
Experts wonder if the virus is responsible for all of the symptoms, if the virus can spread from cow to cow, and how the findings might shape farm biosecurity.
Sequencing linked the cases to an older H5N1 clade still circulating in India and Bangladesh.
In "Time for a Mindset Change," Dr. Osterholm and Chris Dall discuss the rise in COVID activity in the U.S. and around the world, a recent study on COVID in white-tailed deer, and a survey on vaccine hesitancy in pet owners. Dr. Osterholm also provides an update on avian and human influenza and shares a moment of joy from one of our listeners.
Virologists report what appears to be a second-generation BA.2 lineage Omicron virus with many spike protein mutations.
