By NewsDesk  @bactiman63  The Municipality of Hortolândia in São Paulo State confirmed Thursday, the first death from spotted fever in the city this year. The victim is a 7-year-old boy who died on...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63  Eleven outbreaks of hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD) were registered by the Municipality of Campinas, São Paulo State this month, in early childhood education schools both in...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 The Ministry of Health of the Nation and the Ministry of Public Health of Salta issued an epidemiological alert for the increase in cases of paratyphoid fever (caused by the...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63  According to official statistics in La Pampa, Argentina, syphilis cases have risen steadily over recent years and most sharply from 2019 to 2021. In 2015, 12 infections were...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63  For the week ending November 20, Costa Rica health officials reported 1,362 cases of COVID-19, while the week prior, which spanned November 7 to 13, accounted for 1,723 cases....

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Health officials with the La Pampa Health Ministry are reporting a suspected cutaneous anthrax case in a rural area in the south of the province. The patient is currently...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 Colombia officials issued an alert due to the dengue situation since mid-September. According to Claudia Cuéllar, Deputy Director of Communicable Diseases of the Ministry of...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63  For the first ten months of 2021, French Guiana, on the northeast coast of South America, have reported five confirmed measles cases. Of the 5 confirmed cases reported between...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63  The Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (INI/Fiocruz) informed through a note that the two patients from Rio de Janeiro who...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63  Through October 23 this year, four countries have reported confirmed cases of diphtheria: Brazil with one case, Haiti with 18 cases including 3 deaths, the Dominican Republic...