On Thursday, Dec. 8, nine people reported illness Buryatia Republic a south-central region of Siberia in Russia. Epidemiological investigation concluded that wild boar meat eaten
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November 2011, the Korean Center for Disease Control determined that a 54-year-old woman, who died earlier this year, died of iatrogenic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). After
On July 3, 2009, a 77-year old Swedish man went out kayaking when he suddenly developed acute diarrhea, followed by fever, chills and loss of
Plasmodium falciparum attracts over 95 percent of funding for malaria research and control. Historically, this makes sense; of the four different species of Plasmodium parasites,
Recent research around avian influenza H5N1, commonly known as “bird flu,” has stirred up a great deal of controversy. Debate has centered on the publication
During our Infectious Disease and Mass Gatherings Series, The Disease Daily had the opportunity to speak with Dr. David Heymann and Dr. Bonnie Henry via
In Rwanda and Cameroon, as well as in many other African nations, prostitution is criminalized and sex workers may face an extended prison sentence and
In 1998, a woman in Cameroon was the first to be identified with the “group-N” strain of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Since then, this extremely
The single largest donor for HIV funding, the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB, and malaria (GFATM), was forced to cancel the latest round of
E. coli infection has claimed the lives of two infants in Wales. The infants died at Singleton Hospital in Swansea, South Wales. One infant was