At least five West Virginia University (WVU) football players have been identified with the contagious viral infection, hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD), which has prompted the postponement of Fan...

Hong Kong health officials have reported an additional eight autochthonous, or locally acquired dengue fever cases in the past two days. This brings the total to 15 cases detected in less than a week. The...

Wisconsin state health officials have reported the first human West Nile virus (WNV) of the year in a Dane County resident. The majority of WNV human cases in the state occur during the months of August...

In a follow-up on a report earlier this week, New Jersey state health officials have reported two additional human West Nile virus (WNV) cases, bringing the total to three. The first case was found in...

Swedish health officials (Folkhalsomyndigheten) reports investigating (computer translated) a E. coli O157:H7  outbreak that has sickened more than 50 people to date. The cases have been reported from...

European health officials are reporting a Shigella sonnei outbreak among participants of a Rainbow Gathering in the south-east of Poland. Between 5 and 10 August 2018, 45 participants presented with...

In a follow-up on the imported measles situation in Brazil, the Ministry of Health reported this week that the 910 cases of measles have been confirmed in Amazonas, 5,630 remain under investigation. In...

A new study from researchers at the Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) on the primary mosquito vector of Plasmodium knowlesi, or monkey malaria will publish in the next issue of PLOS One. The research...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says there is no multi-state outbreak in the country currently, responding to several media accounts that there was a national outbreak. “There...

Barbados health officials are reporting an increase in syphilis in pregnant women in recent years. The health ministry is now seeing an abnormally high rate of syphilis in pregnant women and, by extension,...