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Boston area measles case is 2nd in Massachusetts this year

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By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 State health officials have confirmed the second measles case of the year in a child in Greater Boston. During the infectious period, the child was present in a number of locations...

Scotland reports 100 percent increase in gonorrhea in 5 years

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By News Desk   @bactiman63 Reports from Health Protection Scotland (HPS) show that the sexually transmitted infections (STI), chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis have all increased from 2017 to 2018. In...

Rift Valley fever in Mayotte: Vigilance called upon run-up to Eid el Fitr

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By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 In an update on the Rift Valley fever (RVF) animal and human outbreaks in Mayotte, ARS Indian Ocean reports since the first cases occurred at the end of November 2018, 121 animal...

Dengue cases near 4,000 in Singapore

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Singapore health officials reported 3,285 dengue fever cases for the whole of last year. However, the National Environmental Agency (NEA) in Singapore reports around 4,000 cases through May 27. The increase...

Yersinia outbreak update in Sweden and Denmark

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By Robert Herriman  @bactiman63 In a follow-up on the Yersinia enterocolitica outbreak ongoing in Sweden and Denmark, health officials from both countries in this cross-border outbreak to a cumulative...

Measles: 5 new cases reported over the weekend in Saint John

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Health officials in New Brunswick have reported five additional confirmed cases of measles in the Saint John area over the past two days. Two new cases were confirmed late Saturday. Both cases are linked...

Group A Streptococcus vaccine search narrowed

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The search for a global Strep A vaccine has narrowed after researchers sequenced the DNA of more than 2,000 Group A Streptococcus samples from around the world. Researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute,...

Iran update: Wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) from an environmental sewage sample

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By NewsDesk   @bactiman63 In a follow-up on the positive wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) from a environmental sample in Sistan-Baluchistan province, Iran, the World Health Organization says subsequent...

Yellow fever outbreak declared in Uganda

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By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 The Ugandan Ministry of Health declared a yellow fever outbreak earlier this month after laboratory confirmed cases were reported from Koboko and Masaka districts. The patients...

Anthrax outbreak in Guinea linked to sick goat

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By News Desk  @bactiman63 Health officials in Guinea are reporting an anthrax outbreak in Koubia prefecture in the northwestern part of the country. A total of five human cases of anthrax ( four cutaneous...