Idaho health officials are reporting an increase influenza-related deaths in the past two weeks, from 3 deaths as of Jan. 8 to 16 deaths as of Jan. 22. The majority of those deaths are for people over...

Arizona health officials are now reporting five measles cases in the state linked to the Disneyland outbreak, one in Maricopa County and 4 in Pinal County. The Pinal County cases (confirmed today)...

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Canadian health officials today confirmed that an individual in B.C. has tested positive for the H7N9 avian influenza strain. The individual recently returned to Canada from China. This is the first documented...

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The Baltimore City Health Department is investigating a possible measles case in a 12-month-old Baltimore City resident.   There has not been a documented case of measles in Baltimore City in the last...

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In a follow-up to an earlier report, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, NHS Lanarkshire, Police Scotland and Health Protection Scotland are investigating two new probable cases of Botulism in people who inject...

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Successfully treating rabies can be a race against the clock. Those who suffer a bite from a rabid animal have a brief window of time to seek medical help before the virus takes root in the central nervous...

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The Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection (CHP) of the Department of Health (DH) is today (January 26) closely monitoring two additional human cases of avian influenza A(H7N9) notified by the Health...

In a follow-up to a report last week, the Sackville High School student in Lower Sackville, NS who contracted the dangerous bacterial infection, meningococcal meningitis, has died. According to an announcement...

Dr. Sandra Gompf is an Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases at the University of South Florida. In addition, sadly she is the mother who lost a young son to the “brain-eating amoeba”,...

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In a special session of the Executive Board on Ebola, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr Margaret Chan gave the following speech concerning the Ebola outbreak in West Africa: Mister...