Officials with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services has confirmed 39 total measles cases statewide since the middle of March. Since the last update, five additional cases have been...

Officials with the Florida Department of Health in Martin County reported Friday that since the beginning of the year there have been 13 confirmed cases in Martin County. The Florida Department of Health...

Prescribing prolonged courses of antibiotics for patients experiencing symptoms attributed to Lyme disease can lead to harmful health outcomes, says a new position paper by Canada’s infectious disease...

By Jory Lange The CDC is investigating a multistate E coli outbreak.  First detected in Kentucky, this E coli O103 outbreak has now spread to Tennessee, Georgia, Ohio, and Virginia.  Public health investigators...

Earlier this week, the Pennsylvania government warned the public that as the weather gets warmer and you spend more time outdoors, be aware of ticks and Lyme disease. Pennsylvania has reported the ticks...

On this weekends Outbreak News This Week Radio show, I spend the first half talking to World Health Organization (WHO) spokesperson for polio eradication, Oliver Rosenbauer. During the interview, Mr Rosenbauer...

Florida health officials reported an additional 265 hepatitis A cases in March, bringing the total cases for the first quarter of the year to 690. The outbreak total is now 1239 since it started in 2018. Eight...

In a follow-up on the monkeypox situation in Africa in 2018, several countries are still reporting cases in 2019 according to World Health Organization numbers: Central African Republic Three cases, including...

New Zealand health officials reported two additional measles cases during the past week from Waitemata, bringing the country total up to 67 cases since the beginning of the year. More than half the cases...

Officials with the National Health Commission in China have reported the first human case of avian influenza A(H7N9) this year in Gansu. The male patient from Jiuquan, aged 82, has been hospitalized and...