NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews According to a KJRH in Oklahoma report, a 17-month-old toddler has contracted the potentially very serious raccoon roundworm, Baylisascaris procyonis. The parents, Colten...

NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews A 19-year-old pregnant woman from Shymkent, Kazakhstan was diagnosed with echinococcus, an extremely dangerous parasitic disease, according to a Otyrar report (computer...

NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews South Africa health officials reported the first human rabies case of 2022. Rabies was confirmed in a four-year-old child from the Eastern Cape Province. The child was...