Two Chinese Nationals Charged with Smuggling ‘Potential Agroterrorism’ Fungus into the US

Two researchers at the University of Michigan were charged today on several counts, including smuggling the harmful Fusarium fungus into the US. Fusarium graminearum is a harmful fungus that [...]

Kansas Faces Largest TB Outbreak in U.S. History as Cases Surge in KCK Metro

Kansas is currently experiencing its largest tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in history, according to Ashley Goss, deputy secretary at the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. Speaking before [...]

Deaths From Drug-Resistant Infections Set to Spike by 2050

The GRAM report, published in The Lancet, reveals a concerning trend in deaths caused by antibiotic-resistant infections. It predicts that the number of deaths will increase from 1.14 million in [...]

Why Is Antimicrobial Resistance Not Getting Much Attention from Biopharma

As the pandemic of COVID-19 demonstrated, beneficial outcomes can occur when government and industry recognize a public health threat and work together. Unfortunately, the same sense of urgency [...]

First narrow-spectrum antibiotic successfully eliminates Fusobacterium nucleatum

In a recent study conducted at the ADA Forsyth Institute, researchers used a specific type of agent to remove Fusobacterium nucleatum from the mouths of patients with periodontitis without [...]

WHO Pathogen Priority List

The World Health Organization (WHO) has published its latest report on antibacterial agents, including antibiotics in clinical and preclinical development worldwide. The latest annual report on [...]

170 people ‘likely exposed’ to tuberculosis in Long Beach outbreak

Public health officials warned of an ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in Long Beach, California, prompting a declaration of a health emergency. They estimate 170 people have been exposed, with 9 [...]

Global Health Leaders Unite to Confront Urgent Public Health Crisis of Antimicrobial Resistance

Antibiotics play a crucial role in modern medicine, helping to treat complications arising from cancer treatments, joint replacements, dialysis, organ transplants, cesarean sections, and many [...]

World TB Day 2024 –

Current TB therapy requires many months of treatment with complicated medication regimens that tend to cause side effects, often leading to incomplete treatment and poor outcomes. [...]

For Moderna, COVID vaccines were a ‘proof of concept’

The breakthrough mRNA technology that underpins the world’s first approved COVID-19 vaccines has now emerged as a critical element of the biopharmaceutical pipeline, extending from cancer [...]