Mike Coston, Editor of Avian Flu Diary joined me on today’s, Outbreak News This Week Radio Show and I spent a huge portion of the hour-long program on the latest news, updates and analysis concerning...

With the enormous amount of news and information concerning avian influenza, or bird flu, avian cases and human, I thought it was necessary to bring back Mike Coston with Avian Flu Diary on the Outbreak...

On the Sunday, Nov. 23 airing of the talk radio program, Outbreak News This Week with Robert Herriman, the topics that were looked at included the death of Dr. Martin Salia, the Sierra Leone physician...

Mike Coston is the Owner/Editor of Avian Flu Diary The recent surge in MERS cases (48+ cases over 60 days), after a very quiet July and August, serves as a reminder that not only does the MERS coronavirus...

Mike Coston is the Owner/Editor of Avian Flu Diary Roughly six weeks ago, after a relatively quiet July and August, we began to see a slow uptick in the number of MERS-CoV infections being reported out...

Mike Coston is the Owner/Editor of Avian Flu Diary Although we don’t know by what mechanism the nurses in Texas and Madrid were inadvertently exposed to the Ebola virus, investigators are looking for...

Mike Coston is the Owner/Editor of Avian Flu Diary Just over 5 months ago we first learned of a new reassortant avian flu subtype called H5N6 which had infected local poultry – and killed a 49...

The reality of life in this second decade of the 21st century is that disease threats that once were local, can now spread globally in a matter of hours or days.  Vast oceans and prolonged travel times...

In August of 2010, roughly 9 months after the first vaccines for the pandemic H1N1 virus became available, we began to see reports of an increase in narcolepsy among children and adolescents in Northern...