Zoonotic Infections News

A health care worker returning from Sierra Leone is the first laboratory-confirmed case of Ebola virus disease detected in Italy, according to WHO.

The FDA today announced its approval of moxifloxacin for the prevention and treatment of pneumonic and septicemic plague in adult patients, according to a press release.

Patients with the chikungunya virus had similar clinical presentation and T cell counts compared to patients with new, symmetric rheumatoid arthritis, according to recently published research.

Pig farmers are six times more likely to carry multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus than those without current swine exposure, according to research published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.

Despite an overall decline in new cases, WHO data suggest that malaria claims more than half a million lives each year, with an estimated 278 million people in Africa living in households without an insecticide-treated bed net.

The approximately 59,000 annual human deaths from the rabies virus could be prevented through domestic dog vaccination, according to a recent study.

The CDC and the African Union Commission are collaborating to form the African Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, according to a press release.

A newly developed clinical prediction model allowed clinicians to confirm or eliminate patients suspected of having Ebola disease, according to results of a retrospective cohort study.

Pregnant women with high levels of iron were at significantly increased risk for contracting malaria, according to results of an intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy clinical trial.

Early treatment with mebendazole within the first 6 days of Trichinella exposure prevented the onset of clinical trichinellosis, according to recent findings.