By NewsDesk   @bactiman63 The Laos Ministry of Health has reported more than 5,600 malaria cases in 2019, a significant decrease from 2018, according to a Vientiane Times report. No deaths have been...

By NewsDesk   @bactiman63 Salmonella was laboratory confirmed in 35 of 73 pupils of Wonderland kindergarten in Khanty-Mansiysk who were infected with acute intestinal infection, city administrators report. The...

By NewsDesk   @bactiman63 For the send year in a row, Japanese health officials reported more than 6,000 syphilis cases in the country, about 10 time what was seen in 2010. In this video, I look at...

By NewsDesk   @bactiman63 On December 8, 2019, the Ministry of Health of Malaysia (MOH) announced that a case of polio (circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 1 -cVDPV1) was confirmed in Sabah....

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued travel notices for Africa and Asia because of polio outbreaks in a number of countries on each continent. Polio...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews In a follow-up on the first ever local transmission of dengue fever in Afghanistan, the World Health Organization (WHO) now reports that at least 14 cases total,...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reported Thursday that Indonesia is the latest Asian country to report an outbreak of African Swine...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Pakistan Pakistan reported three additional wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases this past week–one from Sindh province and two from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province....

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Since late 2018, there has been a dramatic increase in localized measles outbreaks across the country. On 6 February 2019, the Department of Health (DOH) declared...

By NewsDesk   @bactiman63 Over the weekend, we reported on dozens of brucellosis cases in people at the Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute in Gansu Province. Today, we see an additional report of...