By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Larvae of a new malaria mosquito species are abundantly present in water containers in cities in Ethiopia. The mosquito, Anopheles stephensi, is the main malaria mosquito...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 Health officials with the Murrumbidgee Local Health District (MLHD) have issued a health alert this week over an increase in Ross River fever cases in the southern Riverina in...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews In 2019, the number of Guinea Worm disease cases tallied were 53, with most cases reported from Chad, nearly double the number seen in 2018. Today, the Carter Center...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 Health officials in Isiolo County in central Kenya were alerted in November 2020 to a number of herders who died who presented a number of symptoms to include fever, headache,...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 In 2013, Singapore reported the largest dengue fever outbreak in recent history recording some 22,318 cases and eight deaths. However, that record was easily shattered in 2020...

By News Desk  @bactiman63 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Monday that that on any given day in 2018, 1 in 5 people in the U.S. had a sexually transmitted infection (STI) and...

By News Desk  @bactiman63 China reported it’s fourth rabies case caused by organ transplantation on January 2019 since 2015 and details of the case are described in Biosafety and Health in December. The...

By News Desk  @bactiman63 The Simcoe Muskoka Health District reports genome sequencing on all six COVID-19 samples from a Barrie long-term care home have now been identified as the United Kingdom (UK)...

By News Desk  @bactiman63 The Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare report that while new COVID-19 cases are still reported in large numbers across the country, the Christmas and New Year period...

By Teddy Cambosa The Municipality of Bontoc in Mountain Province, located at the northern part in the Philippines, have tallied a total of 12 new cases bearing the UK variant of the COVID-19 virus. According...