Every year in Europe, some 23 million people are sickened by foodborne diseases, in which approximately 4700 people die, according to estimates published a review of the most recent available data entitled...

By News Desk  @bactiman63 1,310 people – 643 adults and 667 children- were reported infected with measles last week in Ukraine, according to Center for Public Health of the Ministry of Health. This...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Ministry of Health (MOH) says the bar of 2,000 cases was passed Sunday, June 2, 2019. In fact, as CIDRAP reports: This outbreak, in...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 The Florida Department of Health reported an additional 63 hepatitis A cases during the past week bringing the outbreak total since the beginning of 2018 to 1,921, with nearly...

By Robert Herriman  @bactiman63 Dengue fever The Taiwan Department of Disease Control has reported three additional confirmed cases of locally acquired dengue fever today in Sanmin District, Kaohsiung...

UK health officials are reporting an increase in sexually transmitted infections (STI) diagnosed in 2018, with gonorrhea cases showing the largest increase. Overall, new STI diagnoses in 2018 increased...

India health officials have confirmed a Nipah virus case in Kerala state, almost exactly a year after an outbreak sickened 18 and killed 17 in 2018. Reports note that the 23-year-old college student is...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 Fourteen people, 13 students and one teacher, from the School of the Arts (SOTA) in Singapore contracted the mosquito-borne viral infection, chikungunya, while in Thailand, according...

By NewsDesk   @bactiman63 The Thailand Department of Disease Control (DDC) reports that from January 1st to May 27th, 23,622 dengue fever cases, including 30 deaths have been recorded, local media reports...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 Health officials in Taiwan are reporting (computer translated) six additional locally transmitted dengue fever cases in Sanmin District, Kaohsiung City. This brings the total...