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Florida reports 8th locally acquired chikungunya case in Miami-Dade

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The Florida Department of Health reported the state’s eighth autochthonous chikungunya case in Miami-Dade County, according to data from their Arbovirus surveillance released today. This comes...

Thailand reports 1st suspect Ebola case

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An individual from Guinea who went to seek medical care after arriving in Thailand is the country’s first suspect Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) case. The Phuket News reports that the patient, a Guinean, arrived...

Frieden on Ebola outbreak: ‘Everything I’ve seen suggests over the next few weeks it’s likely to get worse’

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director, Dr. Tom Frieden just returned from West Africa to get a bird’s eye view of the West Africa Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak, the largest...

Filipino nurse tests positive for MERS virus

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A Filipino nurse, who was working in Saudi Arabia, has tested positive for the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) upon return to the Philippines, Health Secretary Enrique T. Ona said...

China reports two H7N9 avian influenza cases from Xinjiang Uygur

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The Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection (CHP) of the Department of Health (DH) today (September 3) received notification from the National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC) of two cases...

Dengue fever in the Americas: 1 million cases and counting

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While much attention has been given to the chikungunya outbreak in the Western hemisphere, and for good reason, another mosquito borne virus has infected and killed more people in the Americas so far in...

Princeton to offer Bexsero to incoming students

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In 2013, Princeton University reported eight students who contracted Neisseria meningitidis group B, which prompted the University to get approval to receive and administer the unapproved for use in the...

Bobcat that attacked Connecticut woman tests rabies positive

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The bobcat that attacked a Bozrah, Connecticut woman over the weekend has tested positive for rabies, according to the state  Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) today. The woman...

US government contracts with Mapp Biopharmaceutical to get ZMapp to FDA approval

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The development of a medication to treat illness from Ebola will be accelerated under a contract with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness...

KSU scientists discover proteins that may lead to Staphylococcus aureus treatments

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Two Kansas State University biochemists have discovered a family of proteins that could lead to better treatments for Staphylococcus aureus, a pathogenic bacterium that can cause more than 60,000 potentially...