Robert Herriman

Microbiologist, podcaster and Editor at Outbreak News Today.

Idaho health officials are reporting an outbreak of the contagious viral disease, mumps, involving University of Idaho, Moscow students. As of Wednesday, November 19, 10 laboratory-confirmed cases of...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), along with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and health departments of several states are investigating a multistate Salmonella Enteritidis outbreak...

The Taiwan Centers for Disease Control (Taiwan CDC) has reported this year’s sixth rubella (German measles) case in a 31-year-old male who resides in northern Taiwan. However, unlike the other five...

The number of dengue fever cases in Taiwan increased by another 1,353 indigenous and imported cases, bring the country total to a cumulative total of 11,953 (213 being imported). As has been the situation...

A very rare parasite was discovered residing in the brain of a man from the United Kingdom by researchers at CUH Addenbrooke, the 1 cm long tapeworm lived there for at least four years. The tapeworm,...

The Hawaii Department of Agriculture (HDOA) has issued a quarantine order stopping the movement of pigs on Oahu after an outbreak of a serious swine disease, Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus (PEDv), was...

The gastrointestinal bug, norovirus, has been confirmed to be the cause of at least 15 University of Virginia students GI illness, according to the Cavalier Daily report today. Student Health Director...

For the past two weeks, Portugal has experienced one of the largest Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in Europe’s history with 336 cases and 10 deaths, according to an RTE report today. Portugal Health...

The Ministry of Health of Madagascar has reported an outbreak of plague that since late August has affected 119 people. According to a World Health Organization report today, the first case, a male from...

A New York City (Brooklyn) resident who recently returned from Mali, the African country that has seen limited Ebola transmission (6 cases), has tested negative for the Ebola virus after being taken to Bellevue...