The 2020-2021 Influenza Season and COVID-19
Oct 27, 2020 | Outbreak NewsThe world may be focused on COVID-19, but health officials and countries are looking ahead to the current 2020-2021 influenza season in order to anticipate demand on health systems in context of the...
COVID-19 Cases Rise Across the U.S. as Universities Resume Play
Sep 23, 2020 | Outbreak NewsOn September 10th, 2020, sources from Boston news channels reported several positive COVID-19 tests. These results came from Boston College Men and Women’s Division 1 swim teams (1). There were 13...
Poliovirus found in sewage near vaccine manufacturing facility in the Netherlands
Sep 4, 2020 | Outbreak NewsOn September 2nd Danish news outlets reported on health ministry inspectors investigating the source of Poliovirus detected in sewage near a pharmaceutical company in Utrecht (1). The Poliovirus...
Zoonotic Disease on Mink Farms
Aug 24, 2020 | Outbreak NewsAfter reporting alarmingly high mortality rates among minks, five live mink from two different Utah mink farms have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Upon the Utah Veterinary Lab completed...
Dengue Outbreak in the Florida Keys
Jul 16, 2020 | Outbreak NewsOn July 11, 2020, the Florida Department of Health in Monroe County (DOH-Monroe) received conformation on a laboratory confirmed case of dengue fever in Florida Keys [1]. This is the 14th case of...
EpiCore RFIs: Trichinosis in Santa Fe Province of Argentina
Jun 26, 2020 | Outbreak NewsOn June 12, 2020, Healthmap was alerted to a local newspaper article that announced a potential outbreak of Trichinosis in Nelson, Argentina. The article identified 20 potential cases originating...
Pediatric Vaccination during COVID-19
Jun 9, 2020 | Outbreak NewsIn January 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced a known outbreak of an undiagnosed pneumonia-like illness, later identified to be caused by a novel coronavirus, COVID-19 [1]. In March...
New Ebola Outbreak in Northwest Democratic Republic of Congo
Jun 8, 2020 | Outbreak NewsCurrent Situation There is a new outbreak of the Ebola virus disease (EVD) in the western Equateur province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). As of June 2, 2020, this outbreak...
COVID-19 Vaccine Development
May 20, 2020 | Outbreak NewsAmid the chaos, grief, and sadness during the COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease) pandemic, there is hope for a possible vaccine against severe acute respiratory syndrome 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the causative...
Measles Outbreak in the Pacific Islands
Apr 27, 2020 | Outbreak NewsSeveral months before the COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease) pandemic began, schools across the Pacific Islands had closed and large social gatherings had been banned in an effort to control a measles...
First Acute Rubella Case in Ireland in Over a Decade
Mar 3, 2020 | Outbreak NewsOn February 21, the initial report of an acute Rubella case in Ireland was released [1]. This is the first reported case of acute Rubella in Ireland in eleven years, with the last confirmed case...
Avian Flu Outbreak among Poultry in China
Feb 19, 2020 | Outbreak NewsAmong focus on the Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) outbreak originating in the city of Wuhan, Hubei province China, the neighboring province of Hunan is experiencing an outbreak of Avian Influenza...
Provincial Outbreak of Syphilis in Nova Scotia
Feb 4, 2020 | Outbreak NewsOn Monday, January 20th, the Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA) declared a province-wide outbreak of syphilis in Nova Scotia, Canada [1,2]. Syphilis cases used to be rare in Canada but since 2001,...
Reply to: Measles in America: Why vaccination matters
What a shame this outbreak is! We had eradicated measles in the US with measles vaccine! Then...5 years 9 months ago
Reply to: Just the Vax, Please: Vaccines and Hospital Acquired Infections -- Using old techniques to address new issues
Yet another vaccine - when will enough be enough. A very proven method of curing C Diff is fecal...6 years 8 months ago
Reply to: The P. Vivax Comeback -- Is Malaria Beating Natural Defense?
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