By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Brazil reported 18,073 confirmed measles cases since January 1, 2019,accounting for 88 percent of the 20,430 confirmed cases reported in the Americas in 2019, according...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews In a follow-up on the dengue fever outbreak in Paraguay, the Ministry of Health now reports 35,801 suspect cases through the fourth week of 2020, three times the number...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews UN health officials have reported 114 confirmed measles cases since the beginning of 2019, which include 112 were detected in Argentina and 2 in Spain. The vast majority...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews In a follow-up on a report from earlier this month, the 15-year-old teen who contracted the parasite, Naegleria fowleri, from the thermal springs of Guayabo de Bagaces...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Paraguay health authorities report starting off 2020 with a major dengue fever outbreak this far into January. According to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Ten months after the catastrophic Haiti 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck in January 2010, a cholera outbreak was confirmed in Haiti. V. cholerae serogroup O1, biotype...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews For the first time in 20 years, Brazil health authorities are reporting (computer translated) a confirmed case of Brazilian hemorrhagic fever. During this period,...

With the arrival of summer when the occurrence of diseases transmitted by mosquitoes, such as yellow fever increase, the Brazilian Ministry of Health is alerting the population to get vaccinated against...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews According to the State Secretariat of Health (Sesapi), from January 1 to December 24, 6,698 cases of dengue fever were confirmed in Piauí state in northeast Brazil....

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Brazil Health Ministry officials reported Thursday the distribution of 1.7 million doses of pentavalent vaccine to the various states. This in turn will be sent to...