By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a travel notice this week for the West African country of Benin due to a meningococcal disease outbreak. An...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Singapore Ministry of Health (MOH) reported today the confirmation of a imported case of novel coronavirus infection in the city-state. The individual is a 66...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued travel notices for Africa and Asia because of polio outbreaks in a number of countries on each continent. Polio...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a travel notice for Asia and the Pacific Islands due to an ongoing risk of dengue. Dengue is an ongoing...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reiterated the travel notice for Venezuela due to a breakdown of the health infrastructure. They recommend that...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews In a follow-up on the cholera outbreak in Yemen, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a travel notice today for Yemen due to the cholera outbreak. There...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a travel notice this week for Bolivia. The notice is in response to an outbreak of hemorrhagic fever was...

Earlier this year, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported preliminary global data shows that reported cases rose by 300 percent in the first three months of 2019, compared to the same period in...

By NewsDesk   @bactiman63 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated their travel notice for Nigeria due to an ongoing monkeypox outbreak this week. The federal health agency notes: Since...

“The scale of this crisis is staggering” -Secretary General of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC ), Elhadj As Sy On March 14, 2019, Tropical Cyclone...