Zoonotic Infections News

A team from the University of Kansas is developing a system to identify species of disease-carrying insects through a cellphone application, according to a press release.

Aethlon Medical Inc. has entered into an agreement with Qualtran that would expand human clinical studies of its investigational therapy device to include patients with dengue infection, according to a press release.

President Barack Obama, addressing the United Nations on Thursday, said the Ebola outbreak in West Africa is a top national security priority and he called for a global effort to combat the disease.

The WHO Ebola Response Team predicts the number of Ebola cases throughout Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone to exceed 20,000 by Nov. 2 if there are no changes in control measures for the outbreak, according to a report in The New England Journal of Medicine.

The U.N. General Assembly and the U.N. Security Council have approved resolutions to create the U.N. Mission for Ebola Emergency Response to contain the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

A 2010 outbreak of Bacillus anthracis among humans was traced to grazing farm animals in the Himalayan nation of Bhutan in South Asia, according recent study findings.

President Barack Obama announced a major increase in support of those fighting the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, pledging to supply additional health care workers, community care kits, medical supplies, materials to build field hospitals and up to 3,000 military personnel.

Rates of positive Lyme disease test results were similar between a university laboratory, a commercial laboratory and two laboratories that specialize in Lyme disease testing, according to researchers from Columbia University.

WHO and the International Severe Acute Respiratory and Emerging Infection Consortium announced today that whole-blood therapies and convalescent serum can be used to treat Ebola.

There have been 20 cases of postartemisinin delayed hemolysis since 2012, including two cases identified in the United States, according to a report in MMWR.