Kentucky health officials reported Friday on a confirmed measles case in an unvaccinated child living in the region served by the Barren River District Health Department. The child recently traveled...

Here are the top five posts on Outbreak News Today for the week Feb. 9 through Feb. 15: 5. Vaccine misinformation: Maine health officials warn fake CDC flyer The Maine Centers for Disease Control and...

This week, I had the opportunity to spend the whole hour on the Outbreak News This Week Radio Show with a physician who is in the “belly of the beast” of Venezuela. In this segment of the...

Venezuela’s tumbling economy and authoritarian rule have precipitated an unprecedented humanitarian crisis. The country is now experiencing a more than 1 million percent inflation, healthcare is in...

My first guest on the new YouTube program, Outbreak News TV is public health scientist, infectious disease expert and director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, or CIDRAP at the...

Florida is one of some sixteen states that have declared a hepatitis A outbreak in recent years and since Jan. 2018, state health officials have reported some 736 outbreak cases. In December, Florida state...

In an update on the measles outbreak in the New York City metro area, eleven additional confirmed cases of measles have been reported in the Rockland County and Brooklyn areas this past week. In the Orthodox...

Representatives from the  Philippine Society for Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, the Philippine Pediatric Society and the Pediatric Infectious Disease Society of the Philippines reached out to...

Tennessee is one of some 16 states that are dealing with an outbreak of hepatitis A that have occurred primarily among persons who use injection and non-injection drugs, and/or persons who are homeless,...

In our continuing coverage of the measles outbreak in Ukraine, the Center for Public Health of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine reported the eighth measles fatality of the year in an adult. Of the eight...