Up to 110 people have been stricken with what appears to be salmonella food poisoning in a town south of Brisbane, Australia. The Metro South Public Health Unit has received multiple complaints from separate...

Health officials in California and Utah have confirmed at least nine measles cases between residents of the two states and three other cases are under investigation. All confirmed and suspect cases reported...

Colombia’s second largest city has declared a health alert this week in an effort to control the spread of the Chikungunya virus, according to a Terra report Monday (computer translated). Medellín...

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An influenza advisory remains in effect for Martin County following higher than normal rates of influenza and influenza like illness (ILI). Seasonal influenza is a contagious respiratory disease caused...

A Woodbury Chuck E. Cheese restaurant is the focus of an investigation of a norovirus outbreak that sickened at least 30 over the weekend, The Washington County Public Health Department is trying to determine...

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NovoBiotic Pharmaceuticals, LLC announces the discovery and preclinical development of teixobactin, a compound belonging to a new class of antibiotics. As reported in the journal Nature (Ling et. al....

Flu continues to expand its reach in the United States this season with 43 states experiencing either high or widespread flu activity, mostly resulting from circulation of drifted H3N2 viruses, according...

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The Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection (CHP) of the Department of Health (DH) is today (January 7) closely monitoring an additional human case of avian influenza A(H7N9) in Zhaoqing notified by the...

Dallas County Health and Human Services (DCHHS) has confirmed the seventh case of imported Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) in Dallas County. The patient was infected with the virus during recent travel to Honduras. The...

New York City health officials issued an alert today advising health care providers to consider Legionnaire’s disease when evaluating patients presenting with signs of pneumonia. This comes after ...