One health

Communicable diseases remain one of the major causes of mortality worldwide. There are disparities in the numbers of individuals affected by disease between low-and-middle-income countries and those in developed nations. Microbes will play in important role in drug discovery: producing anticancer drugs and antimicrobials. Applying One Health principles, to understand the interaction of pathogens and the human host, development of diagnostics, treatments, and disease prevention, applied microbiologists can shape global health and wellbeing outcomes.

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Global Virus Network issues warning on the Marburg virus outbreak in Ethiopia

The Global Virus Network (GVN) has issued a statement on the newly confirmed outbreak of Marburg virus disease (MVD) in southern Ethiopia. This represents the country’s first documented outbreak of Marburg virus and raises urgent public health, research, and surveillance imperatives.

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Parkinson’s drug offers basis for new hospital bacterium anti-infectives

Researchers have discovered a promising starting point for the development of new active substances against the hospital germ Pseudomonas aeruginosa.