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Lyme disease: White-tailed deer blood kills Borrelia burgdorferi bacteria

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 As tick season kicks in across the country, the executive director of the University of Massachusetts Amherst-based New England Center of Excellence in Vector-Borne Diseases (NEWVEC)...

Salmonella Outbreak Linked to Flour

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By: Candess Zona Mendola of MakeFoodSafe.com The FDA and CDC have announced another Salmonella outbreak, this time linked to raw flour. This Salmonella Flour Outbreak currently has affected 12 people in...

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Marburg virus outbreak increases in Equatorial Guinea ‘worrying’: WHO

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 The World Health Organization (WHO) says the trend of the ongoing Marburg Virus Disease (MVD) outbreak in Equatorial Guinea is worrying with the increased number of new confirmed...

Lassa fever death reported in Guinea child

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Ministry of Health of Guinea notified WHO last week of a confirmed fatal case of Lassa fever in a three-year-old male child from the Kobela health area, Nzerekore health district. The...

Norovirus confirmed on three recent cruises

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported today that norovirus has been confirmed as the causative agent in outbreak on three additional voyages–Celebrity...

New Zealand reports its first case of rabies

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 New Zealand health officials confirmed the country has had its first case of rabies. The overseas traveller died from the disease last week, but this person posed no health risk to...

Hanoi records dramatic increases in chickenpox, dengue fever

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Center for Disease Control (CDC) in Hanoi reported this week the number of cases of chickenpox and dengue fever in the city continued to increase. Compared to the same period...

Philippines measles cases top 200, Dengue cases doubled from last year

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 Measles Health officials in the Philippines report 208 measles cases from the beginning of the year through March 11, a 478 percent increase over the 36 cases reported during the...

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California: H5N1 Avian Influenza Detected In Deceased Mountain Lions

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Eurasian strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI H5N1) was detected in two mountain lions in Mono County in December 2022 and January 2023, according to wildlife health...

Paraguay experiences its largest chikungunya epidemic and is one of the largest recorded in South America, CDC team in country

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 A team from the United States CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) has been in the country for a few days. These are epidemiologists from the Division of Vector Diseases...