Robert Herriman

Microbiologist, podcaster and Editor at Outbreak News Today.

The Johnson City, Tennessee university issued a release Tuesday evening of at least one confirmed bacterial meningitis case in an off-campus student. East Tennessee State University (ETSU) said an off-campus...

A teenage girl from Saitama Prefecture has been confirmed positive for the mosquito borne virus, dengue fever. The case is being called an autochthonous, or locally acquired case, the first such case...

The Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) reported today that the number of human West Nile virus (WNV) cases has increased by 11 during the past several days, bringing the total confirmed cases...

The number of chikungunya cases in the Dominican Republic now stands at 429,000 as of Aug. 15, making it by far the country with the most people infected in the Western hemisphere, according to a Diario...

A elderly man from Dammam, Saudi Arabia is the latest Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) reported from the Kingdom, according to a Ministry of Health release Monday. The 69-year-old...

In a press briefing today by the UN Information Service, Tarik Jasarevic said concerning the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Ebola outbreak: “The WHO had been notified by...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported last week the apparent first human case of influenza A (H3N2) variant (H3N2v) virus in Ohio. The infected patient was hospitalized as a...

To help with the current and possible future battles with Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), the Russian government gave the government in Conakry, Guinea, a mobile diagnostic laboratory equipped to work with...

A Salt Lake County resident has become the first human West Nile virus (WNV) case in Utah in 2014, according to a Fox 13 report today. The individual is an adult age 65 or older, according to the Utah...

The Denmark news source, Politiken Denmark (computer translated) reports between 6,000 and 12,000 Danes who have never been near a pig farm could be infected with porcine MRSA without knowing it. Two...