There has been a plethora of reports on the microcephaly surge in Brazil and the potential link between the newest mosquito borne virus in the Americas, Zika virus, and the rare neurological condition...

By Gail H. Javitt, JD, MPH, Of Counsel at DLA Piper Just in time for the peak of flu season, a New York trial court issued a decision on December 17 striking down a New York City rule that required children...

With the confirmation of autochthonous and imported Zika virus infection in French Guiana, the number of countries globally with evidence, past or current, of Zika virus transmission has grown to 33...

Zika virus has arrived in the Americas with a force in 2015 as 13 countries or territories have now seen autochthonous transmission and in Brazil alone, an estimated 1,000,000+ cases reported there. Zika...

The news last week regarding a norovirus outbreak connected to a Chipotle restaurant in Boston comes in the wake of other foodborne illness outbreaks related to its restaurants which have infected over...

The Mayday Project Lyme patient advocacy group announced a response from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to the citizen petition, End Preferential Treatment of the IDSA Guidelines...

Five years ago I reported on how the US Public Health Service under the leadership of Dr. John Cutler conducted clearly unethical and dangerous syphilis experiments in Guatemala in the mid-40s. This...

In a follow-up to a report earlier today, I reported on what I believed to be an erroneous story concerning polio cases reported in Russia and Tajikistan in news articles by several news agencies (see...

A panel of scientists and public health experts convened by WHO met in Geneva this week to prioritize the top five to ten emerging pathogens likely to cause severe outbreaks in the near future, and for...

With the presence of autochthonous, or locally transmitted Zika virus infection in nine countries in South and Central America and Mexico in 2015, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued...