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Mumps cases rise at Ohio State University, UW-Madison

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The contagious viral disease continues to increase in numbers at several college campuses in Ohio and Wisconsin, according to health officials in both states. The outbreak in Central Ohio, affecting Franklin...

With a decrease in acorns will come a surge in Lyme disease says ecologist

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A New York disease ecologist is sounding the alarm bells for the Northeastern United States as he is warning of a swell of Lyme disease cases this spring according to a Friday news release. Dr. Richard...

Ohio woman who used MRSA infected arm as weapon arraigned

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A woman who robbed a gas station last October using her MRSA infected arm as a weapon was arraigned this week on one count of robbery and one count of theft. Chesterfieldresident, 32-year-old Caroline...

Texas police officer bitten by a drunk a quarter of a century ago facing dire effects of Hepatitis C

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Little did small town Texas police officer, Truman Bradshaw think that 24 years after getting bit by a drunken man he would be dying of cirrhosis and Stage 4 liver cancer and seeking a liver transplant. But...

Illinois Subway source of Shigella outbreak: Well over 100 sick

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A Subway sandwich restaurant in Lombard, Illinois that was temporarily closed by health officials a few weeks ago has been the source of a Shigella outbreak which has afflicted at least 116 people. Of...

TB cases declining in the United States according to CDC: the numbers

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In Friday’s issue of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly (MMWR), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the 2009 statistics from the National TB Surveillance System. The results were...

Interesting numbers that came out of the 2010 National STD Prevention Conference

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I wanted to point out some of the numbers from a couple of presentations from last week’s 2010 National STD Prevention Conference. Both presentations were from researchers from the Centers for Disease...

6 Jersey women get infections from buttocks-enhancement injections

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According to the Newark Star-Ledger, 6 women have been identified as receiving cosmetic surgery from an unlicensed provider resulting cellulitis and abscesses of the buttocks. While seeking to enhance...

The microbial risks of unpasteurized milk and cheeses

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There are those who favor drinking raw milk to pasteurized and the reasons include that pasteurization alters the taste of the milk but more importantly they say, it destroys much of the nutritional value...

Leprosy patient in Hawaii charged with shipping methamphetamine

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The youngest leprosy patient in Kalaupapa from the remote northern peninsula of Molokai was charged with trying to ship methamphetamine from Honolulu to Kalaupapa last month. Allegedly, the 68 year old...