By Teddy Cambosa Following a mad cow outbreak in Brazil, the Department of Agriculture in the Philippines has imposed a temporary ban on beef imports coming from Brazil. In their latest Memorandum Order...

NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Brazilian Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) Surveillance System detected two cases of atypical BSE, type H in two beef cows in meat plants in two different states–Minas...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Brazil became the third country in the Americas to confirm a case of diphtheria in 2021. According to the World Health Organization, the case is a 26-year-old male...

By NewsDesk   @bactiman63 In Brazil, the Agricultural Defense Secretariat of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply reports (computer translated) the confirmation of an atypical case of Bovine...

The number of probable Zika virus infections in Brazil in 2016 is reported to be at 138,108, according to the Ministry of Health data through May 7 via Brazilian media (computer translated).  Of these,...

A farmer from São José dos Quatro Marcos,  Mato Grosso, Brazil is the first case of cowpox in a person confirmed this year, according to Office of Agricultural Defense of Mato Grosso in a Globo.com...