By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Japanese encephalitis In a follow-up on the Japanese encephalitis (JE) situation in Taiwan, The Department of Disease Control announced five new confirmed JE cases...

By Robert Herriman  @bactiman63 A recent case of botulism was reported in Howard County,Maryland, which led me to do this short news brief on botulism in the US. I look at the kinds of botulism and the...

The Food and Drug Administration and the Texas Department of Health recently issued health alerts after four infants were hospitalized with botulism after using pacifiers containing honey. While essentially...

Here are the top five posts on Outbreak News Today for the Thanksgiving week, the week Nov. 17 through Nov. 23: 5. North Carolina: Chickenpox outbreak reported at Asheville school The largest outbreak...

The FDA is reminding parents and caregivers not to give honey to infants or children younger than one year of age. This includes pacifiers filled with or dipped in honey. The FDA has received reports...

BACKGROUND: Honey can contain spores of Clostridium botulinum, an organism that produces a potent neurotoxin known to cause severe illness in infants. Infant botulism occurs when C. botulinum spores...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently published the National Botulism Surveillance Summary for 2016 and reported 29 confirmed foodborne botulism cases that year.  Among the foodborne...

The 2015 botulism outbreak linked to a church potluck reported in Apr. 2015 in Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio accounted for a bulk of the foodborne botulism cases nationally in 2015, according to a...

Tokyo Metropolitan health officials reported the death of a 6-month-old Adachi child from infant botulism after he was fed honey, according to a Japan Times report. According to the report: The Adachi...