How many cases have been confirmed?Case numbers seem to be rising daily though are still low. In England […]

The meningitis vaccine could be used to provide some protection against gonorrhoea, researchers have said.In a collection of […]

Two new antimicrobial drugs, cefiderocol and the combination of ceftazidime with avibactam, are set to come on stream […]

The incidence of antibiotic resistant bloodstream infections fell in England in 2020 for the first time since 2016, […]

bmj;375/nov03_1/n2656/FAF1faJaved Tanveer/AFP /Getty ImagesAfter a three year pause, nationwide house-to-house polio vaccinations are to restart in Afghanistan on […]

West Africa’s first ever case of Marburg virus disease, an epidemic prone disease with high case fatality rates, […]

Outbreaks have been reported in the US of transmissible Candida auris fungal infections that have been found to […]

On 29 July 2019, the Target Malaria insectary was opened at the Uganda Virus Research Institute in Entebbe. […]

A new outbreak of Ebola virus disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the 11th in the country, […]

Lockdown is a crude instrument. On its own it can’t eliminate covid-19, but it buys a country time […]