Yellow Fever Outbreak in Nigeria
Jan 16, 2020 | Outbreak NewsNigeria has been battling successive yellow fever outbreaks since September 2017. The ongoing outbreak has reached nearly a three-fold increase in a number of confirmed cases in 2019 compared to 2018...
Unknown Pneumonia Infects Almost 60 in Central China
Jan 7, 2020 | Outbreak NewsIn mid to late December, several employees of the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, China fell ill with pneumonia-like illness [1]. The WHO China Country Office was notified of the cases on December 31...
Novel Tickborne Disease Spreads Across the World
Dec 16, 2019 | Outbreak NewsAn emerging parasitic disease has been identified in the United Kingdom for the first time. Babesia venatorum has historically been reported in animal and human populations throughout other parts of...
Locally-Acquired Zika in France
Dec 12, 2019 | Outbreak NewsCurrent Situation On October 22, 2019, a second case of locally-acquired Zika virus was reported in the southeastern French town Hyères [1]. The first case was reported on October 9, by the Paca...
Concerns about Vaccine-Derived Polio
Dec 6, 2019 | Outbreak NewsThe World Health Organization (WHO) identified nine new polio cases caused by the polio vaccine in Nigeria, Congo, Central African Republic and Angola in November. The total number of children this...
Plague Cases in China
Dec 3, 2019 | Outbreak NewsOn November 18, three cases of the plague, two pneumonic and one bubonic, were confirmed in China [1,2,3,4]. The first two cases, reported on November 12, were an inner-Mongolian husband and wife [1...
Is this the end of the mosquito?
Dec 2, 2019 | Outbreak NewsBackground What is considered to be the world’s deadliest animal? Is it snakes, or sharks, or even humans? Not even close. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (...
Update of African Swine Fever in Asia
Nov 21, 2019 | Outbreak NewsThe Spread of African Swine Fever in Asia The outbreak of African Swine Fever (ASF) is ongoing in Asia, especially in Cambodia, China, North Korea, Laos, Philippine, Mongolia and Vietnam [1]. The...
Hepatitis A Outbreak in New Jersey
Nov 14, 2019 | Outbreak NewsSituation in New Jersey: The New Jersey Department of Health reported on November 4th that a deli worker at the ShopRite in Somerville, New Jersey was infected with hepatitis A and worked during a...
Ebola: New Developments
Nov 13, 2019 | Outbreak NewsThe current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) began in 2018 and has affected over 3,000 lives. As of November 12, there have been 3,287 Ebola cases (3,169 confirmed and 118...
Sexual Transmission of Dengue
Nov 12, 2019 | Outbreak NewsBackground Dengue virus is an acute illness that is spread through the bite of an infected Aedes species mosquito. This is done so when a female mosquito feeds on an infected human host, therefore...
Anthrax Kills Over 100 Elephants in Botswana
Nov 11, 2019 | Outbreak NewsBACKGROUND When Americans think about anthrax, we think about the weaponization of white powder that was sent to U.S. Senators and news agencies after the September 11th terrorist attacks [1]. This...
Kyasanur Forest Disease in India
Nov 11, 2019 | Outbreak NewsCurrent Situation Kyasanur Forest Disease (KFD), also known as Monkey Disease, is endemic to Karnataka, India, a state located in the southwest area of the country. Historically, there...
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