By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Costa Rica health officials reported Thursday on the first suspected case of coronavirus disease 2019, or COVID-19 in the country. The patient is a 52-year-old Costa...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews For the first time since early February, the Philippines Department of Health (DOH) reported confirmed cases of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). On Friday,...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) reported 85 additional confirmed Lassa fever cases during the past week, bringing the total for 2020 to date to 775. Eleven...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Italian health officials reported nearly 800 additional COVID-19 cases in the past day, bringing the the outbreak total to 3,858. In addition, the death toll has...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention receives reports of about 30,000 cases of Lyme disease each year. The real number, according to the agency, is closer to 300,000. Underreporting affects the...

Health systems can protect healthcare workers during the COVID-19 outbreak when best practices for infection control are diligently applied along with lessons learned from recent outbreaks, according to...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Public Health – Seattle & King County announced today 20 additional confirmed cases of COVID-19 in King County residents. This brings the total number of confirmed...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Tennessee state health officials announced the state’s first case of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus.  The patient is an adult male from Williamson County who had...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced today 11 additional confirmed COVID-19 cases–eight of the new cases are connected to the attorney from Westchester –...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) is reporting more than 400 confirmed COVID-19 cases in Germany to date. No deaths have been reported. The states of North Rhine-Westphalia,...