An alarming increase in harbor seal deaths along the New England coast can now be attributed to a new variant of influenza, U.S. researchers said
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Update on Uganda Reporters from Uganda’s daily publication New Vision write that four people with Ebola symptoms have died. If laboratory reports confirm the presence
Reuters reports that eleven more suspected cases of Ebola are in isolation. There are now 36 suspected or confirmed cases. According to Paul Katwa, head
On the evening of July 29, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni issued a statement on the current Ebola outbreak, in which he called on Ugandans to
Update: According to USAToday , Ugandan Officials and WHO representatives report that the illness is Ebola. Sixteen people are reported dead in Uganda from a
The Indiana State Department of Health is investigating the potential outbreak of variant influenza A virus, or swine flu. Shortly after the LaPorte County Fair,
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
The by now infamous brain-eating amoeba caused its first U.S. fatality of 2012 in an 8-year-old South Carolina boy. Blake Driggers from Sumter County was
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
Despite epidemics in recent years in the neighboring countries of Lithuania, Latvia and Belarus, Estonia has reportedly been fire blight-free until this year. Estonia’s Viljandi