Sarah Anwar

On Friday, April 22, 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) collaborated with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to set interim guidance for those working in the fields where exposure to the Zika virus is inevitable.

On April 18, 2016, the director-general of the World Health Organization, Margaret Chan, OBE, JP, discussed antimicrobial resistance at a United Nations briefing in New York.

As it turns out, there’s a wrong way to wash your hands. A recently published study found WHO's six-step handwashing method to be superior to the CDC's three-step method.

Researchers from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report that there is a possibility of eliminating the transmission of both Hepatitis B and C in the United States.

On Friday, April 15, 2016, WHO approved Sanofi Pasteur’s Dengvaxia (CYD-TDV), a live recombinant tetravalent vaccine for Dengue fever, first approved in Mexico in December 2015.

According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the first case of locally transmitted Zika virus infection in the continental United States is now inevitable. The virus already brings with it fears for pregnant women, and those women trying to become pregnant, but now, a Zika virus infection is likely a risk for all adults as the virus has been linked to yet another neurological disorder.

After meticulously analyzing existing evidence, CDC scientists concluded that not only does the Zika virus cause microcephaly, but it is also the culprit behind other serious, fatal brain defects.

Elizabethkingia is believed to be the cause for 18 deaths in Wisconsin, 1 death in Michigan, and now, 1 additional death in Illinois.

During a recent press conference, representatives from the CDC and NIAID agreed that the more researchers uncover about Zika, the scarier the virus appears to be.

A former health care worker has been linked to a recent outbreak of hepatitis C at two hospitals in Utah.

Since January 2016, WHO has been notified of Lassa fever outbreaks in Nigeria, Benin, and Togo, with cases linked to the Togo outbreak in both Germany and Atlanta, Georgia in the United States.

Recent Ebola-linked deaths in Guinea caused the World Health Organization (WHO) Guinea office to implement a “ring vaccination” strategy in which it administered an experimental Ebola vaccine on 800 of 1000 suspected cases, including 182 suspected at high-risk.

Sixteen of the 18 provinces in Angola have reported suspected cases of Yellow Fever. As of late March, there have been a total of 1132 suspected and confirmed Yellow Fever cases in the country, with 168 deaths.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) held a Zika Action Plan Summit in Atlanta, Georgia today with the aims of preparing health officials of the possibility of local Zika transmission.

In the wake of a global Zika scare, and in light of the possibility of a Zika outbreak in the coming months, the FDA has allowed the use of an investigational test to screen blood donations for the Zika virus.

To help protect against the spread of Zika, it is imperative to take the necessary steps to minimize the population of the Aedes aegypti mosquito.

HIV-positive adolescent males display increased levels of sCD14, associated with mineral content and density measures in bones and indicate macrophage activation.

Human metapneumovirus (hMPV), of the paramyxovirus family, was discovered in 2001. hMPV can affect people of all ages, however, older adults, children and individuals with weak immune systems are at highest risk of contracting the virus.

Since approximately 340,000 Europeans had TB infections in 2014, in order to meet its ultimate goal of eliminating the prevalence of TB altogether, Europe still has to overcome many obstacles.

Mycobacterium tuberculosis is an airborne bacteria known to cause tuberculosis (TB), a disease that mainly attacks the lungs, but can also affect other organs, sometimes resulting in death.

A Guinea child who was previously diagnosed with Ebola has succumbed to death and another Koropara civilian died after traveling to a neighboring village.

A student at Rutgers University has been hospitalized due to an infection with Neisseria meningitidis, which causes meningococcal meningitis.

At the moment, there have not yet been any locally transmitted Zika infections in the continental US, however, a recent study reports that this might change in the coming months.

After three unexplained deaths in Koropara, a small village in southern Guinea, WHO diagnosed two individuals with Ebola.

A new study reveals that diabetics may be at an increased risk of contracting Staphylococcus aureus blood infections, due to lower immunity.

Forty one individuals were voluntarily infected with the dengue virus in a new vaccine (TV003) clinical trial, which proved 100% successful.

A recent study attributes the rise in infections of preventable infectious diseases to the growing number of individuals who are refusing vaccines.

An increase in funding from Congress, in addition to a decrease in drug prices, will allow the VA to finance medical care for all hepatitis C patients, regardless of the stage of the disease, for fiscal year 2016.

New Aedes aegypti mosquitos are being genetically engineered to fight the current Zika-spreading population.

Progressive Gourmet Inc. recalls English Muffin breakfast sandwiches from 250 Starbucks stores in Arkansas, Texas, and Oklahoma, due to fear of contamination with Listeria monocytogenes.