On August 18, the adult film industry trade group, Free Speech Coalition, announced a nationwide moratorium on film productions while the industry investigates a syphilis
Category: Outbreak News
Coverage on breaking infectious disease news from all over the world
Once exclusive to Asia and Africa, a strain of Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease (HFMD), which affects children under five, has arrived in the United
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
Local health officials in Quebec announced Sunday that a deadly Legionnaires' disease outbreak has struck more than 100 people and killed eight in Quebec City
Russia declared a state of emergency after an anthrax outbreak caused its first death. The outbreak occurred in the village of Druzhba, in the Altai
Update: From Cate Oswald, Haiti Program Director at Partners in Health: "We’re ensuring that each hospital has enough cholera treatment materials on hand and that
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
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