Robert Herriman

Microbiologist, podcaster and Editor at Outbreak News Today.

In a follow-up to a story published in August, “Tampa Bay area has seen dramatic increase in ‘crypto’ cases this summer“, the Hillsborough County Health Department (DOH-Hillsborough) is...

The dengue fever outbreaks in south China and Taiwan are seeing record numbers in 2014. On Wednesday alone, local authorities in Guangdong Province reported 1,189 new dengue fever cases, bringing the...

The outbreak of the respiratory virus,  Enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) has now been confirmed in 43 states and the District of Columbia, according to the latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)...

In a follow-up to a story earlier, The Hawaii State Department of Health (DOH) has determined that the individual in isolation at a Honolulu hospital who was reported to the department as a possible Ebola...

An additional confirmed case of Entervirus D68 (EV-D68) was detected in Calgary, bringing the total confirmed cases in the province to 50, according to Alberta Health Services. Calgary and Edmonton zones...

With a total of 623 travel associated and locally acquired chikungunya cases, three states account for slightly more than half of all chikungunya cases in the United States, according to the latest data...

Guangdong Province health authorities reported another 1,587 new cases of dengue fever on Monday, bringing the case count in the south China province to 13,449 cases, according to a Shanghai Daily report...

The man who became the first Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) patient in the United States has been identified as 42-year-old Liberian, Thomas Eric Duncan, according to numerous reports. He is from Monrovia,...

The Rhode Island Department of Health has confirmed that a Rhode Island child died last week as a result of Staphylococcus aureus sepsis associated with enteroviral infection (EV-D68). Infection by both...

The total number of probable, confirmed and suspected cases in the current West Africa Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak as of 28 September 2014 is 7,178, with 3,338 deaths according to the health ministries...