NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Vessel Sanitation Program (VSP) reports investigating two outbreaks on recent cruise ship voyages- Seabourn Cruise Lines,...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The World Health Organization (WHO) reports outbreaks of dengue fever and chikungunya in Kenya. Dengue The outbreak has been reported in two Counties Mombasa and Mandera. The cases...

NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Here is some of the most current numbers from three important outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC): Monkeypox Health authorities reported an additional...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 The National Institute of Public Health in Norway (FHI) released  their Annual Report of Outbreaks of Infectious Diseases in Norway in 2020 today which states that in 2020,...

Data from nine cities in Mexico confirms that identifying dengue fever “hot spots” can provide a predictive map for future outbreaks of Zika and chikungunya. All three of these viral diseases are spread...

While the world’s focus has been on COVID-19, sometimes it seems like nothing else is happening in infectious diseases. But that is far from the reality. In recent years, we’ve seen Nigeria report...

More than a dozen U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers experienced large, repeated outbreaks of vaccine-preventable illnesses in the last three years, according to a new study...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Iran The Head of the Public Relations and Information Center of the Ministry of Health, Kianoosh Jahanpour said Friday the number of coronavirus disease infections...

The COVID-19 outbreak is spreading and growing rapidly since first seen less than two months ago, prompting many governments, including the United States, to ban or significantly restrict travel to and...

In this podcast, I look at what I believe are the top infectious disease stories of the last decade.   Related: Texas anthrax: A look at the 2019 outbreak Naegleria fowleri: The PAM protocol with...