By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Officials with the Côte d’Ivoire, or Ivory Coast Ministry of Health report a yellow fever outbreak. According to a press release today (computer translated),...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews A hepatitis A outbreak has been declared in Washington state after a number of cases have been reported in several counties. The affected population is people who...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Negros Occidental Health officials in the province are reporting a 43 percent increase in dengue fever cases through July 20 this year. To date, 4,230 cases have...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The dengue fever epidemic in Vietnam has exceeded 100,000 cases in the first seven months of 2019. According to Suckhoe Doisong report (computer translated), the country...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Onondaga County health officials are reporting that a fox in Onondaga County has tested positive for rabies. Three residents were exposed to rabies as a result of...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews In a follow-up on the Legionnaires’ disease outbreak linked to the Sheraton Atlanta Hotel, the Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) reports 11 lab-confirmed...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Officials with the Texas Animal Health Commission have reported anthrax on four new premises in the past week, including one each in southeast Crockett County, south...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews In a follow-up on the measles epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), health ministry officials report 120,635 total cases through July 7. 2,162 measles...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews In a follow-up on the malaria epidemic in the East-Central African country of Burundi, the Ministry of Public Health  has reported 5,738,661 cases this year through...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration cleared for marketing four previously cleared tests with new indications to aid in the diagnosis of Lyme disease. The tests cleared today are the first time that a...