By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews With the announcement of three additional circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus cases on the island of Mindanao this week, The Department of Health (DOH) announced...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Hong Kong health officials announced today the investigation into a case of human infection of rat Hepatitis E virus (HEV). The case involves an 82-year-old woman...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Philippines health officials reported today on three additional polio cases in the southern island of Mindanao. All three cases were admitted to the Cotabato Regional...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Health authorities in the Philippines report a slowing of the dengue epidemic that has ravaged the country this year. With just over 4,400 cases reported the week...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Taiwan Department of Disease Control announced the first case of Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome (SFTS) in the country. According to the news release...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews In a follow-up on the pneumonic plague cases reported in China earlier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Cf6n… , officials in Inner Mongolia, China report a...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Pakistan Pakistan reported an additional two wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases during the past week, according to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. Both of...

Tychan‘s first-in-class monoclonal antibody candidate treatment for Yellow Fever (YF), called TY014, has successfully completed Phase 1A/1B safety trials in Singapore, it announced today. Tychan...

The New York Times and other media are reporting on two pneumonic plague cases from Inner Mongolia in northern China that were diagnosed in a Beijing hospital. I take a look at this story and some other...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 Measles has been one of several serious epidemics the Philippines has battled this year– health officials have reported over 42,200 cases through early October, including...