With the heavy rains of recent months, Leptospirosis returned to French Guiana. According to the Agency Regional Health (ARS) on March 25, 2022, the disease has already caused one death and several patients...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63  For the first ten months of 2021, French Guiana, on the northeast coast of South America, have reported five confirmed measles cases. Of the 5 confirmed cases reported between...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 French health authorities reported 13 laboratory-confirmed cases of Mayaro fever in French Guiana earlier this month. According to the World Health Organization, in September...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews UN health officials have reported a locally-acquired yellow fever case and death in French Guiana, in northeastern South America. The case, which was confirmed on...

Several days ago a ProMED-Mail report described a yellow fever case in French Guiana on the northeast coast of South America (computer translated). On Wednesday, WHO published a report on the case with...

Health officials in French Guyana are reporting the first confirmed case of brain malformation in a child of a pregnant woman with Zika virus, according to a local media report (computer translated). The...