For the last month, Panama’s Social Security Hospital (CSS) is experiencing an outbreak of Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC) infections among its patients. On Tuesday, August
Year: 2011
On September 3, the WHO will officially declare the Compostela Valley province free of lymphatic filariasis (LF). Compostela Valley will be the first province in
A recent rise in C.difficile cases across multiple hospitals in Ontario, Canada has led to several outbreak declarations of thisconcerning and increasingly common hospital-acquired infection.
In March 2011, HealthMap reported on several undiagnosed deaths of tourists in Chiang Mai, Thailand. On May 13th we reported that Thai officials continued to
Forgetting to give your dog a monthly heartworm preventive just got a lot more dangerous. Merial (the Animal Health Division of pharmaceutical giant Sanofi) was
The World Health Organization has sent a team of outbreak investigators to Angola where schoolchildren have been suffering from a non-fatal illness. Reported symptoms may
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September’s Emerging Infectious Diseases journal reports that two individuals’ tattoos were infected by a bacteria normally seen only in people with poor immune systems. In
As of yesterday, 30 patients, 3 of which have been confirmed, in Haicheng City and Xiuyan County of Liaoning Province, were admitted to local hospitals
As the Horn of Africa – including Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, and Djibouti – faces its worst drought in over 50 years, thousands of Somali refugees