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A DEADLY anthrax outbreak has struck Thailand, killing a man and hospitalising four others, health officials say. Authorities are now racing to trace the source of the highly dangerous livestock di… ...
The combination of climate change and pathogen expansion could be fueling a surge in infectious diseases. GEN consulted ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) actively responds to anthrax epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) ...
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The World Health Organisation said the risk of the outbreak spreading locally or internationally is low. No travel advice regarding anthrax cases in Thailand has been issued by the British Government.
Thailand is facing its first deadly anthrax outbreak in 25 years — and it’s happening in a popular travel destination. A 53-year-old man has died after slaughtering an infected cow, and four ...
Fears of an outbreak of a notoriously fatal disease have escalated after Thailand reported four cases of cutaneous anthrax to the World Health Organisation (WHO), marking the first instances in ...
References [1] Molecular characterisation of an outbreak-involved Bacillus anthracis strain confirms the spillover of anthrax from West Africa. Infectious Diseases of Poverty (2024).
A trial that began this week on Kauai is stirring up over a century’s worth of concerns - centered around a plot of land many ...
Prior to the intervention in 2023, the state had a case fatality rate (CFR) of over two per cent, the highest being 5.45 pc in 2014, followed by 3.85 pc in 2015 and 2.94 pc in 2019. The CFR has now ...