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Mississippi health officials have reported a second case of Vibrio vulnificus in a resident from Forrest County who contracted the bacterial infection in Mississippi gulf waters. This follows a previous...

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The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that they would be sending a mission into Guinea-Bissau to assist in a Zika outbreak which has affected four people, according to a Sapo report (computer...

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On July 21, one premise in Marion County, Florida was placed under quarantine for strangles. The owner recently purchased the horse in Tennessee. The horse became clinical one day after arriving in Florida...

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UK health officials are seeing an increase in the parasitic infection, cyclosporiasis, in travelers returning from Mexico, according to Travel Health Pro report. The cluster has been seen since June and...

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Unpublished research conducted by the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) in Brazil detected the presence of Zika virus in mosquito, Culex quinquefasciatus, collected in the city of Recife. This finding...

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Officials with the Tompkins County Health Department (TCHD) report an increase in sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the area during the first half of 2016. According to health department data, there...

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Officials with the Snohomish Health District announced the temporary closing of a Monroe preschool after two schoolkids were hospitalized due to complications from a Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC)...

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Earlier, we saw that the number of animal rabies cases have increased in Ontario, Canada, particularly in the City of Hamilton. Now, 1500 miles away in the province of Saskatchewan, authorities are reporting...

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In a update on the E. coli O157 outbreak in the United Kingdom, Public Health England (PHE) officials report an additional 42 cases in England bringing the outbreak total to 151. This is 144 in England,...

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The City of Hamilton Public Health Services received confirmation of the first positive rabid bat case this year. Nearly all human cases of rabies in Canada over the past several years have been a result...