On 5 September 2018, HealthMap noted multiple news-media reports and twitter posts of sick passengers on an Emirates flight, which had landed at John
Author: Emily Cohn
Over the past four years, since its emergence in 2013, China has experienced seasonal epidemics of avian influenza subtype H7N9. The country has been
Bees are dying at alarming rates (42% of colonies in the US collapsed in 2015, but has been a worldwide issue)[1] and the drop-off
Three years have passed since the drinking water of Flint, Michigan was initially contaminated with lead. In order to reduce costs, the city’s water
Europe is not the only continent in the middle of a bird flu epidemic. While other Asian countries such as South Korea and Japan
Just one month after being declared free from the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of Avian Influenza, India reported several outbreaks of a different strain,
On 23rd of June, Cape Verde’s Ministry of Health reported that there had been 11 cases of Zika virus-linked microcephaly on the small African nation
The World Health Organization (WHO) has recorded 1,644 laboratory-confirmed cases and at least 590 deaths of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in 26
The Lagos State Government confirmed on 22 February that measles was responsible for an outbreak of Febrile Rash Illness (FRI) in southwestern Nigeria. The outbreak
‘Tis the season for the obligatory “best of” lists for 2015. We thought we’d take a look back at some of this year’s notable diseases