NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Indonesia Ministry of Health (computer translated) reported this week a case of local transmission of the new variant of Omicron in Jakarta Tuesday. The presence...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 There are five Plasmodium species that cause malaria with the vast majority of reported cases being due to Plasmodium falciparum. Plasmodium vivax is the second most common reported...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Officials with the Jakarta, Indonesia government announced today that two  Sumatran tigers at the city’s Ragunan Zoo tested positive for coronavirus in mid-July...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Just like the COVID-19 outbreak, the addition of new cases and deaths from dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) continues. In addition, areas with many dengue cases are...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Government of Indonesia through the Task Force for the Acceleration of Handling COVID-19 (National Task Force) noted the addition of 862 positive COVID-19 confirmed...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The number of COVID-19 cases in Indonesia has risen to 227, as of Wednesday, according to the health ministry (Kementerian Kesehatan). Most of the positive cases...

Here is a look at some interesting infectious disease and health news, opinion and research reported across the globe: Unknown virus claims 64 lives in Indore, India An unknown virus has claimed 64...

In a follow-up on the report of an increase in diphtheria cases in Indonesia this year, Minister of Health Prof Nila Moeloek and Governor of Jakarta Anies Baswedan launched an Outbreak Response Immunization...

Following the imported measles case earlier this month in a unvaccinated one-year-old girl who resides in northern Taiwan, health officials report announced this year’s second imported measles case...

Dengue fever is endemic throughout southeast Asia and Indonesia has seen it’s share of outbreaks of the mosquito borne virus. Two years ago, more than 112,000 cases and 871 deaths were reported,...