By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews According to a cidadeverde.com report, The Municipal Health Foundation (FMS) confirmed the first case of Oropouche fever in the city of Teresina in Piauí state. The...

By NewsDesk   @bactiman63 The State Department of Health (Sesapi) discloses yet another case of West Nile Fever diagnosed in Piauí state. He is a young adult who suffered from meningoencephalitis and...

By NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Teresina Municipal Health Foundation released instructions for health providers (computer translated) in light of several confirmed melioidosis cases in Piauí state in 2019. Five...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews According to the State Secretariat of Health (Sesapi), from January 1 to December 24, 6,698 cases of dengue fever were confirmed in Piauí state in northeast Brazil....

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Health authorities in Piauí state in northeast Brazil have reported a 332.7 percent increase in dengue fever cases in the state from 2018 to 2019. The Piauí Health...

In an update on the massive increases of the condition, microcephaly, in northeast Brazil, Brazilian health officials now put the tally at 739 suspected cases of microcephaly, identified in 160 municipalities...

Microcephaly is a medical condition in which the circumference of the head is smaller than normal because the brain has not developed properly or has stopped growing.  In northeast Brazil, they have seen...

In a follow-up to a report on the unusual increases of microcephaly in Pernambuco state, Brazil, several additional states are reporting unexpected increase in the number of newborns with microcephaly,...

While the United States has reported in excess of 2,000 human West Nile virus (WNV) cases this year as of the beginning of December and over 40,000 cases since the mosquito borne virus was first seen in...