NewsDesk @bactiman63 Last month, New Hampshire health officials released a health alert after identifying two locally acquired Echinococcus granulosus cases, the first such cases of the parasitic infection...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews In the Volgograd region, the Mantoux test helped identify a rare disease in a 13-year-old adolescent. At school, a Volgograd student underwent a tuberculin test,...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews A rare parasitic infection imported from Europe continues to take root in Alberta, Canada. The province is now the North American hotspot for human alveolar echinococcosis...

Taenia solium–also called pork tapeworm–is a parasite which causes disease around the world, particularly in very poor communities with deficient santiation and where pigs roam free. Researchers...

Here are the top five posts on Outbreak News Today for the week of Mar. 9 through Mar. 15: 5. Philippines: Dengue cases top 40K in 1st two months of 2019 The number 5 post of the week was an update...

The Public Health Agency of Sweden, or Folkhälsomyndigheten have reviewed some recent human Echinococcus multilocularis infection and conclude that some recent infections cannot be ruled out that they...

In a continuation of the Parasitology interviews, here are five more: The Parasitology interviews, Part 1 amzn_assoc_placement = "adunit0"; amzn_assoc_tracking_id = "outbre-20"; amzn_assoc_ad_mode...

Here are the top five posts on Outbreak News Today for the week Nov. 24 through Nov. 30: 5. H5N6 avian influenza: Chinese girl hospitalized in serious condition China reports 23rd human case of avian...

A Chinese woman who ate several frogs in 2013, in an effort to sooth her rheumatism, has a tapeworm removed from her breast five years later, according to a Chinese news source (computer translated). Years...

The internet has been flooded by every possible news source covering a story about a man, who claimed he ate sushi daily, who presented to his doctor a 5 ½ ft long tapeworm. This is from a podcast called...