By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews In this video report, I look at the coronavirus disease, or COVID-19 outbreak situation in South America. The last continent to report a case is now surpassed 200,000...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Testing for the SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019, or COVID-19 is the main topic of many newscasts, opinion shows, States and their Governors...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews In this video, I look at international and national calls for banning “wet markets” to protect the public and global health. Wet markets can be “timebombs”...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews In late February 2020, New York City health officials reported 3 additional neonatal herpes cases in infants who went through ritual Jewish circumcision. In the video,...

With so many people at home these days, it is a good time to catch up on some reading. In this video, I recommend five books on the topic of infectious diseases that anyone with an interest in the topic...

There has been an awful lot of going back and forth over the appropriateness of naming or calling a disease by the location in which it was first found. In this video, I demonstrate using thirty infectious...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews In this video, I look at the current situation with the dengue fever outbreak in the South American country of Paraguay. Philippines: 17th polio case reported since...

Nigerian health officials are battling a Lassa fever outbreak in early 2020 where more than 250 confirmed cases and 40 deaths have been reported. Country and global officials say an annual upsurge in the...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews In this video, I look at some of the latest news and numbers, one month into the 2019 Novel coronavirus epidemic (2019-nCoV). Tonga continues to report measles...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews In this video update on the 2019 Novel coronavirus outbreak, the news keeps pouring in and in this video report we see the 4th 2019-NoCv case reported in the US–this...