The Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) will hold a town hall meeting this Thursday to discuss avian influenza and steps poultry owners should be taking to protect their birds following confirmation...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Xtoro (finafloxacin otic suspension), a new drug used to treat acute otitis externa, commonly known as swimmer’s ear. Acute otitis externa is an...

Maryland has joined Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Montana, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and Virginia as the latest state affected by the multistate Salmonella...

The first American Ebola patient to be treated at the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha will be returning to Liberia next month, the same place he contracted the dangerous virus. Beginning Jan. 15, the...

Cases of primary and secondary syphilis (P&S) in the United States increased, in terms of number of cases, by 10.9 percent from 2012 to 2013, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention;s...

Mike Coston is the Owner/Editor of Avian Flu Diary As expected, according to the FAO EMPRES report filed on Germany’s latest bird flu outbreak, the subtype has now been identified as H5N8.   At...

Mike Coston is the Owner/Editor of Avian Flu Diary We’ve updates this morning on two (now confirmed) suspected bird flu outbreaks I wrote about yesterday in Germany and Japan (see here, and here) ,...

In an effort to condense the abundance of Ebola -related news into more digestible morsels, here is the Outbreak News Today’s version of the Ebola news round-up for today: Antibody rich serum...

Two people hospitalized at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) has started a flurry of rumors concerning the presence of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) on the Caribbean island of Barbados. However, on Monday,...

After reporting 25 human West Nile virus (WNV) cases in 2010 and 14 human cases in 2012, Suffolk County Commissioner of Health Services James Tomarken reported today the first and only human case of...