Outbreak is a sudden increase or outburst of unexpected disease or war. It may affect a small and localized group or impact upon thousands of people across an entire continent.
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Measles is a highly contagious viral illness that can lead to severe complications, including fatal pneumonia. In early 2025, a measles outbreak was identified in west Texas. Since then, the...
Join us for an insightful webinar exploring how two pioneering public health labs, National Institute of Virology (NIV), India and Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz), Brazil, have...
Laboratories performing diagnostic testing for infectious diseases have an obligation to meet the needs of multiple patient populations. With infectious disease, time it takes for reporting...
Influenza is a highly contagious respiratory illness that affects millions of people worldwide each year. The influenza virus is constantly evolving, making it difficult to predict and preve...
Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy is an emerging technology in the field of microbiology. Recent studies have shown its utility for bacterial typing and the identification of ou...
Date: April 20, 2023 Time: 7:00am (PDT), 10:00am (EDT), 4:00pm (CEST) A recent systematic review found that more than half of known infectious diseases will be aggravated by climate hazards,...
Date: April 11, 2023 Time: 11:00am (PDT), 2:00pm (EDT), 8:00pm (CEST) Antimicrobial resistant (AMR) infections are on the rise causing approximately 1.3M deaths each year due to patients suc...
Vaccines have played a major role in protecting human health as one of the key means of controlling infectious diseases. More than 20 high-risk diseases can be currently prevented through va...
Date: April 05, 2023 Time: 11:00am (NZDT) Date: April 04, 2023 Time: 4:00pm (PST), 7:00pm (EST), 1:00pm (CET) Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technology-based testing method has been widely...
Date: February 28, 2023 Time: 11:00am (PST), 2:00pm (EST), 8:00pm (CET) Traditional methods of infection prevention to detect healthcare-associated outbreaks have remained unchanged for many...
Date: January 17, 2023 Time: 9:00am (PST), 12:00pm (EST), 6:00pm (CET) As SARS-CoV-2 infections continue to ebb and flow, other respiratory viruses have made a big comeback on the world stag...
Date: December 1, 2022 Time: 9:00am 98% of in-patients will undergo a diagnostic test during a hospital stay.1 With the increased focus on the accuracy of diagnostic test results needed to in...
Date: November 30, 2022 Time: 12:00pm (PST), 3:00pm (EST), 9:00pm (CET) Prior to 2022, monkeypox virus was a rare cause of disease in humans with most cases being associated with travel to t...
Date: November 15, 2022 Time: 8:00am (PST), 11:00am (EST), 5:00pm (CET) Waterborne pathogens lead to deteriorating water quality and challenge global health and economy. The latest U.S. Envi...
With recent emergences in new infectious diseases and their variants, there is a need to develop faster and more specific analytical tools to detect different respiratory infectious diseases...
Date: October 25, 2022 Time: 11:00am (PST), 2:00pm (EST), 8:00pm (CEST) Candida auris is a multi-drug resistant yeast that continues to be a global threat for infection and transmission in h...
SARS-CoV-2 spreads through airborne transmission. Aerosols containing live virus are dispersed when an infected person exhales and then continue to accumulate indoors, putting others at risk...
Date: September 8, 2022 Time: 1:00pm PST, 4:00pm EST Recent pandemic related events have proven the value of fast, reliable surveillance testing results to protect worker health and saftey....
Pathogen detection and surveillance have become a high priority in both healthcare and environmental settings for the safety of patients and the general public. The COVID-19 pandemic highlig...
Date: June 07, 2022 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT), 4:00pm (CEST) The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the potential role that wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) can play in assessing a...
Since the initial COVID-19 outbreak, the SARS-CoV-2 virus has mutated, resulting in a range of variants. SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern, exemplified most recently with Omicron, need to be de...