By: Makayla Ross Image courtesy of NIAID; CC-BY-SA. On April 23rd, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) declared a new outbreak of Ebola, marking the
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By: Caroline Pane Image Credit: Animal People Forum. CC-BY-NC. The United Kingdom Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) has warned dog owners in the United
By: Makayla Ross Image credit: NIH Image Gallery. CC-BY-NC. On April 23, 2022, health authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) declared an outbreak
By: Makayla Ross Image credit: Moderna. CC-BY-NC. Two years ago, most people had never heard of messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines nor the entire field of
By: Makayla Ross Image credit: Vaccines at Sanofi. CC-BY-NC-ND. On March 4, 2022, Kenyan health authorities declared an outbreak of Yellow Fever in Isiolo County
By: Caroline Pane Image Credit: United Nations Photo. CC-BY-NC-ND. A 3-year-old in Malawi has the first case of wild-type poliovirus in Africa in 5 years,
By Makayla Ross Image credit: Photo by Tom Murray. CC-BY-NC. Researchers at Penn State recently found evidence that the SARS-coV-2 B.1.1.529 Omicron variant spread from
In December 2020, the B.1.617.2 variant, also known as the COVID-19 Delta variant, was first documented in India (1). Originally referred to as the “India
H10N3 in China On Tuesday, June 1, 2021, Beijing’s National Health Commission announced a confirmed case of the H10N3 avian influenza in a 41-year-old man.
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease similar to COVID-19: both respiratory illnesses are spread from person-to-person via droplet transmission [1]. Contrary to the massive influx