Officials in England have issued the first license for a cull of the badger population in Gloucestershire following an outbreak of bovine tuberculosis. It is
Author: Lauren Edmundson
The Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) has confirmed eight cases of Legionnaires’ disease, including two deaths, in Chicago. The source of the outbreak is
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
A study published on August 1 in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene reported that rabies may not be fatal in all patients
An outbreak of foodborne illness at a Mexican restaurant in Holland, MI was confirmed to be norovirus, the Ottawa County Health Department reported on Tuesday.
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently published a report that used mathematical modeling to identify the U.S. airports that, in the event of
New statistics show that the United States is in the midst of the worst outbreak of pertussis, or whooping cough, in fifty years. Case reports
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
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