What is Tetanus?
Aug 13, 2019 | Outbreak NewsTetanus is a non-communicable disease caused by exposure to the toxin-producing spores of the ubiquitous bacterium, Clostridium tetani. The bacteria are commonly found in soil and both animal and...
EpiCore RFIs: Tuberculosis in a German School District
Aug 7, 2019 | Outbreak News, Featured SeriesThe HealthMap system received a media report on August 2, 2019 that announced a tuberculosis outbreak in a German school district. At the time of the news release, 109 students had been diagnosed...
EpiCore RFIs: Anthrax in Kisumu, Kenya
Jul 19, 2019 | Outbreak News, Featured SeriesThe HealthMap system was alerted to a media report for suspected anthrax infections in Kisumu, Kenya. Two people were hospitalized after presenting with symptoms of anthrax infection, including...
EpiCore RFIs: Measles Among Batek Tribe, Malaysia
Jun 20, 2019 | Outbreak News, Featured SeriesAn article came into the HealthMap system reporting that there had been 14 deaths of unknown origin among an isolated indigenous group in Kelantan state of Malaysia. The deaths were believed to be...
EpiCore RFIs: Dengue Fever in São Joaquim da Barra, Brazil
Jan 28, 2019 | Outbreak News, Featured SeriesAt this time of year, it is dengue season in Brazil, and the city of São Joaquim da Barra recently experienced a child death due to dengue fever. According to an EpiCore responder from Brazil,...
EpiCore RFIs: Hantavirus in Epuyén, Argentina
Dec 18, 2018 | Outbreak NewsArgentina recently observed a unique occurrence of successive Hantavirus cases in Epuyén, all of which were related in time and place. Most recent media sources have reported five confirmed cases...
Update on Acute Flaccid Myelitis in the US: Cases Continue to Rise
Dec 11, 2018 | Outbreak NewsAccording to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there have been 158 confirmed cases of acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) in 2018, with 311 cases currently being investigated [1]. ...
New Drug Approved to Treat Human African Trypanosomiasis
Dec 4, 2018 | Outbreak NewsHuman African trypanosomiasis (HAT), also known as sleeping sickness, is a potentially fatal neglected tropical disease.1 The recent approval of a new drug treatment has the potential to play a...
Rise in Acute Flaccid Myelitis Among Children in the US
Oct 10, 2018 | Outbreak NewsAs of September 2018, the Minnesota State Health Department has reported six cases of Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM) in children under the age of 10 years old. According to the Centers for Disease...
Candida auris: A Fungal Superbug
Sep 20, 2018 | Outbreak NewsIntroduction: In 2009, a 70-year-old woman in Tokyo, Japan was hospitalized with an ear infection that did not seem to improve with antibiotics [4]. The doctors found a fungus when they swabbed her...
EpiCore RFIs: Mysterious Illness Found to be Influenza in Nepal
Sep 17, 2018 | Outbreak News, Featured SeriesOn 11 September 2018, HealthMap noted a news- media report of a mystery disease in Kanchanrup Municipality of Saptari in Nepal. The original report specified 3 deaths and 400 affected, presenting...
EpiCore RFIs: Influenza on Emirates Flight 203
Sep 14, 2018 | Outbreak News, Featured SeriesOn 5 September 2018, HealthMap noted multiple news-media reports and twitter posts of sick passengers on an Emirates flight, which had landed at John F. Kennedy airport in New York and originated ...
An Update on the Current Ebola Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Sep 13, 2018 | Outbreak NewsSince the 2014 West African Ebola outbreak that claimed more than 11,000 lives, the mere mention of Ebola hemorrhagic fever is enough to send the public health world into a frenzy. The thought of...
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...4 years 5 months ago
Reply to: Just the Vax, Please: Vaccines and Hospital Acquired Infections -- Using old techniques to address new issues
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Reply to: The P. Vivax Comeback -- Is Malaria Beating Natural Defense?
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