A recent study called has found that plastic trays at airport security have more respiratory viruses than public toilets.
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01 October 2018
Researchers at the University of Maine in the US have received US$1.5 million to examine the relationships among the spread of mosquito-transmitted disease, perceptions of mosquito-borne disease risk and human travel.
28 September 2018
New findings on tuberculosis (TB) were recently announced at the United Nations General Assembly high-level meeting on tuberculosis.
25 September 2018
Public Health England (PHE) has released new data that show that the number of people diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) in England is at its lowest level since the 1990s, raising hope that the disease may soon be wiped out.
24 September 2018
According to a new report by the World Health Organization (WHO), the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) remains active.
19 September 2018
Officials in northern Italy have confirmed that commercial water-cooling towers were the source of a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak.
18 September 2018
The BBC has reported that an emergency has been declared in Zimbabwe, with the country struggling with its worst outbreak of cholera in a decade.
14 September 2018
As of September 11, around 29 people had been treated with new experimental Ebola drugs, 14 of whom have recovered.
12 September 2018
Following the identification of the first ever case of monkeypox in England earlier this month, health officials have said that a second person has been identified with the infection.
07 September 2018
According to news reports in Turkey, the southeast of the country has been hit by a new outbreak of anthrax.
06 September 2018
Researchers at the University of Edinburgh in the UK have found that bacteria that were thought to be resistant to a powerful antibiotic may actually be susceptible to treatment.
