Multiple Drug Resistance: A Fast-Growing Threat

Antimicrobial resistance and the growing threat of drug-resistant tuberculosis.

Ebola — A Growing Threat?

population. Unfortunately, pregnant women continue to become seriously ill with influenza, and some of them die. Research is need ed to further elucidate the reasons why some pregnant women are not vaccinated so that the problems can be addressed. In addition, by implementing the current antiviral treatment recommendations, clinicians can prevent complications in women with influenza. We need t...

Ebola--a growing threat?

arenavirus. Yet the region has seen previous ebolavirus activity (see map). In the mid-1990s, scientists discovered Côte d’Ivoire ebolavirus (now known as Taï Forest ebolavirus) as a cause of a single reported nonfatal case in a researcher who performed a necropsy on an infected chimpanzee. The episode initiated a major research investigation in and around the Taï Forest region — an effort that...

Ebola — A Growing Threat?

population. Unfortunately, pregnant women continue to become seriously ill with influenza, and some of them die. Research is need ed to further elucidate the reasons why some pregnant women are not vaccinated so that the problems can be addressed. In addition, by implementing the current antiviral treatment recommendations, clinicians can prevent complications in women with influenza. We need t...

The threat of antimalarial drug resistance

The battle between man and malaria has continued for thousands of years. Antimalarial drugs are essential weapons to fight the disease, but their efficacy is threatened by drug resistance which continues to emerge creating a major obstacle to malaria control and jeopardizing renewed hopes for elimination. As 2016 is the first year under WHO Global Technical Strategy for Malaria 2016-2030, it is...