NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) today announced that its Public Health Laboratory has found the variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus known as Omicron in a specimen...

NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews California state health officials and the San Francisco Department of Public Health have confirmed a case of the Omicron variant in California. The individual had just...

NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Columbian Park Zoo in Lafayette, Indiana made the following announcement Tuesday: It is with a very heavy heart that we announce that six of our nine African penguin...

NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) reported today (computer translated) on five confirmed Omicron variant cases. A married couple who arrived from...

NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Officials in Øygarden municipality  (computer translated) in Norway are reporting two confirmed cases of omicron infection in the island municipality in Vestland county. The...

NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews A Hepatitis E outbreak had been declared by Chadian health authorities in mid-November 2021 in Sategui health area, Lai health district in the Tandjile region. As of...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 An outbreak of Rift Valley fever (RVF) is ongoing in Senegal, which was declared by health authorities after confirmation of the first case on November 10 by the Pasteur Institute...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 In Guangdong Province in southern China, hundreds of students at the Guangzhou Vocational and Technical University of Science and Technology have been stricken with symptoms including...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare reported Tuesday the first Omicron variant in a man in his 30s who traveled to Tokyo from Namibia. The individual is identified as a Namibian...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 Queensland Health is reporting a 75 percent decrease in Ross River virus cases to date across the state; however, officials remind the public there’s still a couple of months...