Author: Lakshmi Yajurvedi

Earlier this month, numerous media outlets reported the 6 September death of a 64 year old Welsh woman and 11 additional diagnoses of Legionnaire’s disease

Japanese encephalitis is a mosquito-borne virus which can produce an acute encephalitis leading to seizures, coma or death. An ongoing encephalitis outbreak in Gorakhpur, Uttar

A cholera epidemic that began in Nigeria has spread to Cameroon, Chad, and Niger. In Chad nearly 40 people have died, and 600 are reported

A series of curious tick-borne related cases and deaths were recently reported out of Shangcheng County in Henan Province. Patients all display symptoms indicative of

Although 18 Dengue deaths have been reported in the French overseas territories of Martinique and Guadeloupe, the case reported in Nice is the first case

The NDM-1 gene which gives bacteria resistance to many strong antibiotics (see our 17 Aug 2010 blog) has been found in California, Illinois, and Massachusetts.

  On August 30th, The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences published an interesting study on monkeypox in DR Congo. The smallpox vaccine protects

A new case of polio was identified in the north-east Afghan province of Kunduz bordering Tajikistan, a region that had been polio-free for over a

Bangladesh has been experiencing an anthrax outbreak among humans and cattle. At least 327 people have been infected, and India is concerned that animals moving

  Many European countries have seen West Nile Virus cases recently. Although the virus has been seen in Europe before, it is rare in many