When their is a global infectious disease outbreak, one action governments take is traveler screenings–we saw it during the 2014 Ebola outbreak and we are seeing it with the current COVID-19 outbreak. So,...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews San Diego State University (SDSU) and the San Diego County health department are reporting a mumps outbreak among students at the school. To date, four confirmed and...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Denmark Danish health authorities reported the first detected infection with new coronavirus in Denmark since the virus erupted in Hubei province in China in December...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Nigerian health officials reported an additional 102 confirmed Lassa fever cases, bringing the total to 689 confirmed cases since the beginning of the year through...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Official numbers coming out of China have seen a significant drop in recent days with the latest information from Chinese authorities showing 433 new confirmed cases...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Seqirus announced this week that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first adjuvanted quadrivalent influenza vaccine, FLUAD® QUADRIVALENT...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews In Japan, a Osaka woman who was treated and recovered from COVID-19 has apparently been reinfected, according to a NHK World-Japan report. The woman in her 40s is...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Wednesday confirmed a possible first case of person-to-person transmission of COVID-19 in California in the general...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Health officials in Sweden are reporting the second COVID-19 case in a person who had been in northern Italy and became ill three days after returning to Sweden with...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The CDC, public health and regulatory officials in several states, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) report investigating a multistate outbreak of E....