NewsDesk @bactiman63 Texas animal health officials have reported additional cases of animal anthrax in the state over the past month: Anthrax Confirmed in an Edwards County Spanish Goat Texas Animal...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 In a news release from South Dakota State Veterinarian, Beth Thompson, JD, DVM, it is reported that anthrax has been confirmed in South Dakota for the first time this year in a beef...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Arkansas Department of Health (ADH) reports a resident has died from Naegleria fowleri infection, a rare infection that destroys brain tissue, causing brain swelling and in most...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Enrollment in a Phase 1 trial of a new investigational universal influenza vaccine candidate has begun at the National Institutes of Health’s Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland....

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) and Illinois Department of Public Health are investigating an outbreak of Salmonella, a bacteria that is a common cause of foodborne...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD) is reporting Michigan s first cases of Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) and West Nile virus (WNV) in domestic...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Veterinary Services Laboratories has confirmed that three adult harbor seals in Puget Sound have tested positive for the Highly Pathogenic...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Galveston County Health District regrets to inform residents of a death due to Vibrio vulnificus (V. vulnificus.). Vibrio is a bacterium that naturally lives in coastal waters,...

Experts from the National Emerging Special Pathogens Training and Education Center (NETEC) advise that rumors circulating on social media of an Ebola outbreak at the Burning Man Music Festival in Black...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Florida Department of Health (DOH) reported three additional locally acquired dengue fever cases  in the past week in Broward and Miami-Dade counties. This brings the total...