One hundred and thirty countries submitted reports of leprosy to the World Health Organization (WHO) at start of 2011, with 228,474 new cases
Category: Outbreak News
This past Monday, the Nobel Foundation announced the winners of the Nobel Prize in medicine. The winners have been honored for their discoveries in immunology
Yesterday, Oct. 5 2011, the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene reported three guests at an Ocean City, Md. hotel were hospitalized and
Ten years later, the fall of the World Trade Center may have slowly dissipated into a distant memory for some Americans, but for many individuals,
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports 72 cases and 13 deaths due to listeriosis. Health officials are investigating three more deaths that
Shortly after the WHO press release concerning the rapid spread of multidrug resistant tuberculosis across Europe, tuberculosis testing in an impoverished suburb of Paris, France
On the morning of Sept. 26, a Las Vegas woman was diagnosed with a case of dengue fever. The patient shared a travel history with
Landmines and other unexploded ordinance are notorious for maiming people long after wars have ended. In an unfortunate twist to this continuing lesson, a plane
Each year on Sept. 28 events are held worldwide to raise awareness about the impact of rabies in both humans and animals. Despite rabies being
In late August, the United Nation Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned of a possible resurgence of H5N1 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza due to a