Zoonotic Infections News

SEATTLE — Early results from the JIKI trial in Guinea indicate that favipiravir may lower mortality rates among patients with Ebola virus and lower viral loads early in their disease course, according to a presentation at CROI 2015.

SEATTLE — There was a significant drop in attendance to outpatient HIV services provided in Macenta, Forest Guinea, as a result of the Ebola epidemic, according to data presented at CROI 2015.

The conversion of natural lands to croplands for the production of maize in East Africa may have set the stage for a significant increase of human infections with plague, according to a study published in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

WHO today cleared the use of a rapid diagnostic test for Ebola infection, which can produce results within 15 minutes, according to a press release.

Artemisinin resistance in Plasmodium falciparum malaria has emerged across much of Myanmar, recent data suggest.

Lab-grown liver cells derived from induced pluripotent stem cells may allow for personalized testing on antimalarial drugs and vaccines, according to recent data.

The use of long-lasting insecticidal window screens significantly decreased infestations of the main mosquito vector of dengue virus in Mexico, according to recent findings.

Climatic change may lead to increases in allergies, Lyme disease and other airborne and bacterial diseases, according to a climate report from the Minnesota Department of Health.

The identification of murine typhus in Galveston, Texas, may signal the re-emergence of the disease in this port city, according to researchers from the University of Texas Medical Branch.

Enrollment has begun for a phase 1 clinical trial of a recombinant nanoparticle vaccine for the treatment of Ebola virus, according to a press release from the vaccine’s manufacturer.