The by now infamous brain-eating amoeba caused its first U.S. fatality of 2012 in an 8-year-old South Carolina boy. Blake Driggers from Sumter County was
Category: Outbreak News
One cowherd in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany is suffering from a rare outbreak of anthrax disease. The Minister of Agriculture from Magdeburg, the capital city of Saxony-Anhalt,
Health officials in Scotland have officially declared the end of an outbreak of Legionnaire’s disease in Edinburgh. The outbreak began in late May and resulted
Six new outbreaks of African Swine Fever (ASF) were reported this week from Russia’s Tver and Volgograd regions. Only one of the outbreaks is in
Despite epidemics in recent years in the neighboring countries of Lithuania, Latvia and Belarus, Estonia has reportedly been fire blight-free until this year. Estonia’s Viljandi
The FDA announced yesterday that it has approved Truvada, the first pill that prevents infection with HIV after sexual exposure. The drug is to be
In last week’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the CDC revealed, in 2011, La Crosse Virus (LACV) surpassed West Nile Virus (WNV) as the leading
UNICEF released a statement this week warning of the fast-growing cholera outbreak in the Sahel region of west and central Africa. So far this year,
Update: South Dakota just reported its first WNV case of the season. The case was detected in a blood donor who was not sick. Over the past
Wednesday, July 11, Mass. health officials announced finding four mosquitoes infected with Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE). Catherine Brown, State Public Health Veterinarian, stated that they