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Bourbon virus investigated by health officials, found in Kansas resident who died

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Kansas health officials, in conjunction with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is investigating the possible viral cause of death of a state resident over the summer by a new, or novel...

Texas reports 5th hantavirus case of 2014

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The Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS)is reporting a case of Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS) in a resident of the Golden Crescent region along the central Texas coast. This is the fifth...

Minnesota sees spike in norovirus, 40 outbreaks reported since November

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Approximately 40 outbreaks of norovirus illness have been reported to the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) since the beginning of November. The outbreaks have occurred in a variety of settings, including...

Vaccine against prion disease, chronic wasting disease, developed by NYU researchers

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Researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center and elsewhere say that a vaccination they have developed to fight a brain-based, wasting syndrome among deer and other animals may hold promise on two additional...

CDC director Frieden upon returning from West Africa: ‘It is sobering that Ebola continues to spread rapidly in Sierra Leone’

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The current case count of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in West Africa has topped 19,000 cases and 7,300 deaths in the countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. This comes after more than...

Polio eradication progress in Africa: Cases drop dramatically on the continent

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The top of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) webpage last week stated the following fact: For the first time ever, no cases of wild poliovirus have been reported in Africa in the last 4 months.  That...

Ebola Virus Disease

Child tests negative for Ebola at University of Chicago Medical Center

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Test results for Ebola virus disease were negative for a child who recently traveled from West Africa to Chicago. The child had a fever during screening at O’Hare International Airport and was transported...

Dallas County reports another chikungunya case in El Salvador traveler

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Dallas County Health and Human Services (DCHHS) has confirmed the sixth case of imported Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) in Dallas County in 2014. The patient was infected with the virus during travel to El...

Cambodia: ‘Unlicensed doctor’ arrested as source of HIV outbreak

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In a follow-up to an unusual story in rural western Cambodia where more than 100 people from a remote village of 800 have tested positive for HIV, the story only gets more strange. According to an Associated...

Influenza drug, Rapivab, receives FDA approval

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On December 19, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Rapivab (peramivir) to treat influenza infection in adults. Influenza, commonly known as the flu, is a contagious respiratory illness caused...