The “Mississippi baby” – a child who generated a great deal of excitement last year after being seemingly cured of HIV – now has detectable levels of HIV in the blood, according to doctors and health officials.
Around 75 scientists working for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) at a lab in Atlanta, Georgia, may have accidentally been exposed to live anthrax.
Those suffering from a cardiac arrest after severe traumatic injury are to be placed into “suspended animation” to allow surgeons more time to save their lives, in a trial in the US.
Prostate cancer may a sexually transmitted disease, with the infection transmitted during intercourse, but the evidence remains sparse.
The first case of MERS coronavirus has been reported in the US state of Indiana, after a man fell ill following a trip to Saudi Arabia.