Robert Herriman

Microbiologist, podcaster and Editor at Outbreak News Today.

A new Reason-Rupe poll was released Thursday and it covered a number of topics to include ISIS, the mid term elections and President Obama. In addition to the more political topics, two health issues,...

The province of Los Santos in Panama has reported another case of hantavirus, this one in the Tonosi district, according to a Dia a Dia report (computer translated). The patient, a 24-year-old woman from...

The number of deaths due to Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in West Africa has passed the 4,000 mark, according to health officials from the outbreak countries. In a World Health Organization (WHO) update today,...

After reporting on the first mumps cases at the Ohio State University in early March, seven months and hundreds of cases later, the outbreak of the contagious viral disease has been declared over. According...

The Florida Department of Health has received confirmation of the presence of Enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) infection in an 8 year old boy who resides in Escambia County, Florida. This is the second confirmed...

In a follow-up to a report in May concerning a schistosomiasis cluster reported in France, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports Thursday that in June 2014, the French Institute...

Correction: It is 12 victims, not 13, as previously reported. RH. Another victim of the brain-eating amoeba, Naegleria fowleri has been reported from the Karachi area, according to an Express Tribune report...

The Dallas Sheriff deputy who entered the apartment where the late Ebola victim, Thomas Eric Duncan was sick for days, has tested negative for Ebolavirus, according to the Texas Department of State Health...

The second Ebola patient to be treated at The Nebraska Medical Center, Ashoka Mukpo, is scheduled to receive the same convalescent serum the first patient here did a few weeks ago. And the serum is coming...

The number of states reporting at least confirmed case of Enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) has increased to 46 and the District of Columbia as Oregon is the latest to see a confirmed case. As of today, 678 people...