Zoonotic Infections News

A man in England who kept many pet birds was sickened by a rare case of psittacosis, also known as “parrot fever,” according to researchers.

The CDC recently provided guidelines for health care providers when caring for patients suspected to be infected with Baylisascaris procyonis, a roundworm associated with raccoons.

Researchers say certain vaccines are needed to help end an epidemic of rabies in China that has spread to areas of the country where it was not previously problematic.

Cattle treated with the long-lasting insecticide fipronil significantly would reduce visceral leishmaniasis via phlebotomine sand fly bites in environments where humans live closely among the livestock, according to recent study findings.

Researchers may have discovered why high rates of West Nile virus infection in birds in the Atlanta area have not translated into a large number of infected people.

New findings published today in the New England Journal of Medicine suggest that scrub typhus — a disease that kills approximately 140,000 people each year in the Asia-Pacific region — may now be endemic in South America.

Outbreaks of livestock-associated MRSA infection are most likely to be introduced by humans, according to a study that examined all cases in humans and pigs in Norway from 2008 to 2014.

Researchers are suggesting another possible reservoir and mode of transmission for the colistin-resistant mcr-1 gene that has heightened fears about antimicrobial resistance: companion animals.

Prompt diagnosis could have improved clinical outcomes during an outbreak of plague in the Eastern Province of Zambia, according to data recently published in MMWR.

In a rare case, investigators say a woman died after contracting Streptococcus zooepidemicus from a sick horse in Washington state.