Zoonotic Infections News

On April 19, sick animals were detected in Rafah — a town on the border between the coastal Palestinian territory of the Gaza Strip and Egypt. As reported by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, these cases were diagnosed as an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, caused by a new strain, SAT2, which had been detected in February in Egypt and Libya.

Researchers have found that antibiotics in swine feed stimulated gene exchange in the intestinal microbial community and could therefore lead to transfer of antibiotic-resistant genes, according to new findings published in mBio.

Researchers from Thailand identified Plasmodium knowlesi in human malaria cases from blood samples obtained in 1996, suggesting that this parasite is not a newly emergent pathogen, according to new findings published in Emerging Infectious Diseases.

A lower prevalence for antibiotic-resistant and multidrug-resistant Enterococcus spp was observed among US poultry farms that transitioned to organic farming practices, according to new findings published in Environmental Health Perspectives.

A 64-year-old man from Italy spent 1 week in a touristic village in southern Egypt during April 2010. On April 29, he visited the famous camel market in Shalatin, the largest in Egypt and by some estimates the largest in Africa.

On May 17, a horse fell ill in the township of Tewantin on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia.

Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever is one of the most widely distributed viral hemorrhagic fevers.

Avian influenza — often referred to in the media as “bird flu” — has become one of the most publicized emerging infectious diseases since late 2003.

After the discovery of tumor viruses in chickens during the first decades of the 20th century, a first mammalian tumor virus was discovered — by Richard E. Shope — in 1933. It was found in the cottontail rabbit.

An outbreak of rabies has been reported among raccoons in New York City's Central Park.