Two weeks ago, we reported on the increase of imported yellow fever in Europe after health officials reported a travel-associated case of yellow fever in the Netherlands in March 2017 in a traveler...
Six countries in South America have reported suspected and confirmed yellow fever cases and if citizens from Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, the Plurinational State of Bolivia, and Suriname want to...
Last week, Drs. Anthony S. Fauci and Catharine I. Paules of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) expressed concern about the Brazil yellow fever outbreak and the potential...
Costa Rica, El Salvador and Suriname are the three winners of the Malaria Champions award, a prize presented by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), that recognizes the efforts of the Americas...
The Chinese National Health and Family Planning Commission and Health and Family Planning Commission of Guangdong Province reported on an additional imported case of Zika Virus infection today.
The patient...
On Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated a number of travel notices for Zika virus-affected countries. Many of which are very popular vacation destinations.
These include...
About two months after the first 2 autochthonous cases of Zika virus infection were confirmed in the South American country of Suriname, one expert estimates that the disease burden may be quite high.
According...
Following reports of an imported Zika virus case from Suriname last week, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) reports in their latest epidemiologic map that French Guiana is the 12th country...
We have seen imported Zika virus infection in several countries over the recent past in Australia, Germany, Canada and Japan due to travel to areas where Zika is endemic (eg. Thailand) or where there was...
With the presence of autochthonous, or locally transmitted Zika virus infection in nine countries in South and Central America and Mexico in 2015, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued...
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