NewsDesk @bactiman63 Bird flu There is an extensive outbreak of bird flu in wild birds in Norway this year, and the bird flu virus has recently also been detected in red foxes. The disease is very rarely...

NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews In the last week of 2021, Norway health officials (FHI) reported 65.4% of all COVID-19 infections that were screened or sequenced were the Omicron variant, making it...

NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH) reports that since Christmas Eve, the proportion of omicron variants in the screened, positive COVID-19 samples from Oslo...

NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH) has reported 33 confirmed omicron cases after genome sequencing as of December 7. In addition, the institute has received...

NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The source of infection for the national outbreak of hepatitis A was probably imported, frozen raspberries. This is shown by the investigation that the Norwegian Food...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Norwegian Institute of Public Health has reported an outbreak of hepatitis A. So far, infection has been detected in ten people living in several counties. In...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 In a follow-up on the salmonella outbreak reported across Norway, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health has, in collaboration with the Norwegian Veterinary Institute, detected...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 The Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH) is reporting a Salmonella outbreak which is geographically spread over large parts of country. Twenty cases have been reported–12...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 The Norwegian Institute of Public Health has discovered an increased incidence of the gastrointestinal bacterium Yersinia enterocolitica O3. So far, infection has been detected...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 In Norway, the Institute of Public Health, or Folkehelseinstituttet reported today monitoring data and modeling show a decrease in the spread of infection over the last three...