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The World Health Organization is working with Russian authorities after an employee at a Siberian research institute died of suspected pneumonic plague. Its spokesperson says the cause of death is unconfirmed and testing is still underway.
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CDC surveillance of nearly 17,000 Shigella isolates found extensively drug-resistant strains rose from 0 percent in 2011 to 8.5 percent in 2023. The resistance narrows what doctors can prescribe and is pushing clinics to ask how patients caught the infection.
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Russian authorities quarantined dozens of people after a Siberian lab worker's death that the Kremlin denies was plague. With coverage censored and US officials short of intelligence, investors have to judge the case from what governments do.
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Russian authorities put about 200 people under observation after a plague-lab technician died of what officials call pneumonia of unknown cause. The response is sized for plague, and how fast it unwinds as contacts test negative will say more than the edited statements.
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Six years and thousands of studies have produced leads worth testing, but the researchers doing the work say the missing piece is a reliable disease marker, which is exactly what a trial needs to measure anything.
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For anyone with staff, suppliers or travel in the region, the useful planning number is the growth rate and the spread of health zones rather than the confirmed case total, and both point to a disruption measured in quarters.
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Cervical cancer is falling where vaccination took hold. HPV throat and mouth cancers tripled in US data to 2004 and again in Danish data to 2017, mostly in men, with no screening test.
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Two tick-borne viruses with at least seven US deaths between them are moving with the lone star tick, and diagnosis depends on a hospital deciding to ship blood to a specialised lab.
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Bundibugyo virus has caused 5,021 cases and 2,378 deaths through August 16, reaching 1,000 cases in 40 days against 235 in 2018. The licensed Ebola vaccine was built for a different virus.
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A freeze-dried Td vaccine matched two standard comparators in a 60-person UK trial after a year out of the fridge. Regulators currently allow such excursions for 3 to 4 days.
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Whole-genome sequencing of parasites from hundreds of Ugandan patients links five variants to reduced susceptibility to artemisinin, lumefantrine and mefloquine, according to Nature Medicine.
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