After 12 years without a registered case of measles in Buenos Aires, 17 cases have been reported since August. The minister of health has helped
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Several HealthMap team members gave oral presentations at the International Society for Disease Surveillance’s 9th annual conference in Park City, Utah last week. In addition,
“Inaugurated in 2000, the Triennial program seeks out and presents the most innovative designs at the center of contemporary culture. In this fourth exhibition in
While originally reported as a dengue fever in our earlier blog post on the subject, an epidemic of what appears to be an unknown disease
Hong Kong reported its first diagnosis of H5N1 (avian influenza) since 2003. The 59 year old female patient had recently returned from a trip to
Last week, a Ugandan newspaper reported a mystery illness had caused 13 deaths in Abim and Agago districts in the north. The article quoted a
Six people died, including 4 children, and more than 90 became ill after consuming meat from the endangered hawksbill turtle. The deaths were a result
In the past week, we have received alerts about whooping cough in numerous states, including Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Oregon,
Australia is one of very few industrialized nations without a national disease control center. For the past 20 years, outbreak investigations have been preformed through
A cholera outbreak in Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) Daru Island has Austalian official worried. This outbreak is an extension of last year’s cholera outbreak in