NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Municipality of Toledo in Paraná state in southern Brazil has reported a big increase in dengue fever in the past six weeks. According to the Tarobá News, on February 8, the...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Health officials in Argentina report that a trichinosis outbreak reported on April 27 has now affected 119 people in a number of cities and towns in Córdoba province. According...

The free-living amoeba, Naegleria fowleri was first discovered in the 1960s by Dr. Malcolm Fowler and Dr. Rod Carter in Australia. Several hundred cases have been documented worldwide with few survivors. According...

The number of cryptosporidium cases in Lucas County, OH is up dramatically this year and health officials are finding few commonalities between the cases and have not yet located its origin, according...

Health officials in Colombia have issued an alert to an outbreak of the disfiguring parasitic infection, leishmaniasis, which has already affected 80 people, according to a La Opinion report (computer...