This week’s NTD topic might sound a little more familiar than the other diseases in this series. When we think about rabies in the
Welcome to the first installment of Disease Daily’s Summer Series: “Shedding Light on Neglected Tropical Diseases”. This week, we are looking at chikungunya, an
Less than one week after cases of Ebola were confirmed to have reached an urban area the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), health authorities,
In late March 2018, a patient in the United Kingdom came down with the first known case of a strain of gonorrhea resistant to
Gonorrhea is the second most commonly diagnosed sexually transmitted infection (STI) in the world [3]. It is usually easy to treat; however, its recent
As of April 29, 2018, 13 cases of dengue fever have been confirmed on Easter Island [1]. The cases are assumed to have been
Worldwide attention has recently been brought to the disease called Human T-cell leukemia virus type 1, or HTLV-1. News outlets have been reporting that
The chances are that if you turn on your television or scan your local news sources, you will hear about infectious diseases like HIV/AIDS,
Researchers at Ohio State University, and Utrecht University in the Netherlands are collaborating to better understand the porcine deltacoronavirus (PDCoV) and its possible public
To prevent a third government shutdown and end the debate over government spending that started in October, Congress recently passed a spending bill of