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First RSV treatment for infants and children approved in US

17 July 2023

A treatment to prevent RSV in children up to two years old has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration

A small number of people in Florida and Texas have contracted malaria

What we know so far about the malaria cases in Florida and Texas

27 June 2023

Five malaria cases have been reported in Florida and Texas, all of which were acquired through local transmission

Plague first came to Britain from Europe at least 4000 years ago

30 May 2023

DNA from Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that caused the Black Death, has been found in the teeth of three people who lived in Britain during the Bronze Age

2JK2T3W Illustration of the Marburg virus, a tubular RNA (ribonucleic acid) virus which belongs to the Filoviridae family. It is responsible for Marburg haemorrhagic fever in humans. Symptoms includefever, muscle pain, rash, diarrhoea and haemorrhage.

Marburg virus: What you need to know about the disease outbreak

15 February 2023

The deadly Marburg virus has been detected in Equatorial Guinea and neighbouring Cameroon, and the World Health Organization is deploying teams to trace the spread of the disease

Researchers ‘cannot rule out’ bird flu spreading between sea lions

14 February 2023

More than 600 sea lions have been found dead or dying on Peruvian beaches this year in the first mass mortality event of wild mammals from bird flu in South America

Rear view of sick girl with stuffed toy sitting on bed. Female child patient is resting in ward at clinic. She is wearing hospital gown.

Mystery outbreak of hepatitis in children investigated in the UK

11 April 2022

There has been a cluster of cases of hepatitis, or liver inflammation, among young children in the UK, which could be linked to an unknown infection

Three kookaburras sitting on steel post with rainbow in the background

1 in 3 birds tested at an Australian animal hospital have chlamydia

31 January 2022

A survey of birds entering an Australian animal hospital shows a huge number of them carry chlamydia, including strains never seen before

How much more contagious could the coronavirus get?

26 January 2022

The coronavirus is evolving to become more transmissible, and eventually it could even overtake measles, the most contagious virus we know of

This is a medical illustration of drug-resistant, Shigella sp. bacteria, presented in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) publication entitled, Antibiotic Resistance Threats in the United States, 2019 (AR Threats Report)

Antibiotic resistance killed more people than malaria or AIDS in 2019

20 January 2022

About 1.3 million deaths were directly caused by drug-resistant bacterial infections in 2019, a global study estimates

Blacklegged tick (Ixodes pacificus) on a leaf, carrier of the Lyme disease, 2005.

mRNA vaccine against tick bites could help prevent Lyme disease

17 November 2021

An mRNA vaccine that causes a red, itchy skin rash in response to bites by ticks may allow them to be removed before they transmit Lyme disease-causing bacteria