Here are the top five posts on Outbreak News Today for the week Oct. 27 through Nov. 2:

5. Costa Rica reports rare human rabies case

Costa Rica reported their first human rabies case since 2014 in a man who handled a bat.

Produced by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), under a very-high magnification, this digitally-colorized scanning electron micrograph (SEM) depicts a single filamentous Ebola virus particle that had budded from the surface of a VERO cell of the African green monkey kidney epithelial cell line.
Produced by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), under a very-high magnification, this digitally-colorized scanning electron micrograph (SEM) depicts a single filamentous Ebola virus particle that had budded from the surface of a VERO cell of the African green monkey kidney epithelial cell line.

4.  Ebola update: ‘We seem to be facing a second peak of the outbreak’

In our 4th most popular post of the week, we provide an update (up to that point) on the 3rd largest Ebola Virus Disease outbreak on record.

3. Polio: Wild poliovirus cases in 2018 top 2017 total

In an unfortunate update, our 3rd top post of the week concerned three additional wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) in Afghanistan, putting the total global cases to 25, it has eclipsed the total WPV1 cases for all of 2017 (22).

2. Showerheads and mycobacterial lung infections: Study describes correlation

Researchers from the University of Colorado, Boulder have now shown that the regions in the United States where pathogenic mycobacteria are most prevalent in showerheads are the same regions where nontuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) lung infections are most common.

1. Ill-informed, former ICE agent, David Ward speaks nonsense: Threat of smallpox and leprosy!?

Our top post of the week was about a ridiculous statement made by David Ward, a former ICE agent, on a Fox News program this week. Ward said concerning the Central American migrant caravan:

“We have these individuals coming from all over the world that have some of the most extreme medical care in the world. They are coming in with diseases such as smallpox and leprosy and T.B. that are going to infect our people in the United States.”

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