A newly published report from the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC) reveals a marked and continuous increase (49.1% overall) in crude syphilis incidence rates during the period between 2010...

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Health officials in North Dakota are investigating a salmonella outbreak centered around the Ward County area, which has sickened some 22 people since July. The outbreak strain has been identified as Salmonella...

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CDC today launched its redesigned Healthy Pets Healthy People website, with expanded information about diseases people can catch from pets, farm animals, and wildlife. Users can now search alphabetically...

The Philippines Department of Health (DOH) is reported a suspected  Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) death that has prompted mobilization of a MERS Task Force to create heightened...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), human rabies cases in the United States, thanks to modern day prophylaxis is almost non-existent with only one or two per year. On Friday,...

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Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and The Carter Center congratulate President Enrique Peña Nieto and the people of Mexico for eliminating onchocerciasis (river blindness) within its borders, as verified...

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Health officials in Washoe County, NV say a gastrointestinal outbreak, currently of unknown etiology, has struck 10 county schools and two daycares affecting some 400 students, staff, and faculty. The...

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The contagious viral disease, mumps, has been confirmed at two university campuses this week–Northern Illinois University (NIU)  and the University of Wisconsin (UW)-Whitewater. The DeKalb County...

The following is from a World Health Organization Regional Office for the Western Pacific news release in July 2014: Mongolia is officially measles free. The Government received a measles-elimination...

Health officials in Hillsborough County, FL are reporting the first human West Nile virus (WNV) case of 2015 in an adult male. This is the eighth WNV case in Florida this year–Other cases have been...