A new study from China, published in the Lancet Infectious Diseases journal, contends that a novel, tick-borne Anaplasmosis maybe transmitted from infected goats to human beings in contact. The abstract of the study is given below:SummaryBackgroundAnaplasma phagocytophilum and Anaplasma ovis cause human infections. We investigated the potential for human pathogenicity of a newly discovered Anaplasma species infecting goats in China.MethodsWe … Continue reading Novel Tick-Borne Anaplasma Maybe Transmitted to Human from Infected Goats
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Bangladesh Sees 9 Nipah Virus Cases in First 8 weeks of 2015
According to the report of the Bangladesh Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research, there have been 9 cases of Nipah virus encephalitis in the country in the first two months of 2015. Of these 9 cases, 6 have died, attributing a 67% mortality to the disease in the current year.The consumption of fruit and … Continue reading Bangladesh Sees 9 Nipah Virus Cases in First 8 weeks of 2015
West Nile Virus and Polio-like Syndromes: An Emerging Threat
While the whole nation has been gripped by a media-induced frenzy about the fatal effects of the so-called "litchi virus" (do not get me started on this! This issue deserves a whole post of its own!), another virus-related news has quietly slipped beneath the radars of the cumulative hysteria. This article in the Times of India … Continue reading West Nile Virus and Polio-like Syndromes: An Emerging Threat
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