In a special telebriefing on West Nile virus (WNV) in the United States, Dr. Lyle Petersen, director of the Division of Vector-borne Infectious Diseases at
Year: 2012
Update Aug 28 2012: Last night, the San Francisco Chronicle reported a second death due to Hantavirus. To date, there are three confirmed cases, one
An outbreak of E. coli has killed seven and infected more than 100 in northern Japan, marking the most deadly food poisoning outbreak in ten
This morning, WHO reported 15 suspected cases and ten deaths in the Orientale Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Of the suspected cases, two
The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued an alert on August 9 about an increase in anaplasmosis cases this year. Anaplasmosis is
Yesterday, August 17, the World Health Organization confirmed Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo. There are 10 suspected cases, nine in Isiro and one in
It seems logical to think that over diagnosing an illness would not bring too much harm – better safe than sorry, right? Wrong. A study,
In 2011, more than 100 seals washed up on the shores of the Alaskan coastline. Some were dead, others moribund, and the remaining seemed relatively
Early this week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced its approval of vaccines for the 2012 – 2013 influenza season. In a post from
In late July, The Disease Daily reported on a potential outbreak of a variant swine flu (H3N2v), in Indiana, after the State Department of Health