NewsDesk @bactiman63 The ARS Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region reported recently on two autochthonous, or locally-acquired cases of dengue fever in the Bouches-du-Rhône department. The cases,...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Since the first week of August and as of 11 September 2023, Italian officials report 19 confirmed cases of locally transmitted dengue fever. These cases refer to three unconnec...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Florida Department of Health (DOH) reported three additional locally acquired dengue fever cases  in the past week in Broward and Miami-Dade counties. This brings the total...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 According to Italian Health authorities, there are 27 confirmed cases of Dengue transmitted locally in Italy aeen reported nd notified as of 18 September 2023. These cases refer...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 In a follow-up on the autochthonous dengue fever situation in Florida this year, state health officials reported four additional cases during the past week, bringing the total to...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Florida state health officials reported four additional cases of locally acquired dengue were in the past week from Broward (2) and Miami-Dade (2) counties. This brings the total...

In this news brief, I look at the outbreak situation of Oropouche fever in Brazil, Bolivia and Peru and the CDC's recent travel notice.#oropouche #travel #br...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Guatemala government declared a national emergency on Thursday due to a dengue outbreak in the country this year. Health Minister Francisco Coma said, “We have made the...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) in Dhaka, Bangladesh reports 80,074 total dengue fever cases through August 11, with cases nearly evenly split between the...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Maryland health officials reported Friday on a confirmed, locally acquired malaria case in a Maryland resident who lives in the National Capital Region. The individual was...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Health Emergency Response Operations Center (CORUS) informs that 89 cases of chikungunya have been confirmed in Pouytenga in the Center-East region of Burkina Faso by the...

The infections typically occur in the upper Midwest and parts of the Southeast. A new study suggests the fungus' range has expanded to Vermont.

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Italian public health authorities have reported four autochthonous dengue fever cases in August (three in Lombardy region and one in Lazio region). 18 total dengue cases have...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Health officials in Bahia State in Brazil are reporting a massive increase in cases in 2019 as compared to last year, according to a Voz da Bahia report (computer...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The National Institute of Health explains the dengue figures in Colombia that correspond to the behavior of an epidemic year,  which occurs every three to four years.  and makes...

Genomic surveillance by a Brown-led team of scientists has revealed mutations in malaria-causing parasites that will complicate efforts to eradicate the disease in Africa.

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Ministry of Health & Wellness has declared an outbreak of Dengue for Jamaica. The outbreak comes as the Ministry’s National Surveillance Unit advised that Jamaica has...

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee who also heads the health department claimed that so far 19 babies have died in the state.

A new study shows that in addition to preventing infections, the Ebola vaccine can save some people who are already sick with the often fatal disease.

UC Riverside and Yale University team sequences and mines genome of the pathogen Babesia duncani

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Chikungunya is relatively rare in Senegal. The World Health Organization (WHO) reported two confirmed cases of the mosquito-borne illness through August 1 in Sokone and Pikine...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Florida state health officials reported eight additional locally acquired dengue fever cases in Miami-Dade County in the past week, bringing the county total to 26 this year....

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Connecticut Department of Public Health (DPH) today announced that four Connecticut residents have tested positive for Powassan virus (POWV) infection. These four cases of...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 In a follow-up on the locally acquired malaria case in Maryland a little over a week ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that the case was caused by...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Hantavirus has already caused 14 infections this year in four departments, according to data from the Ministry of Health . “In the 2023 administration there are 14 positive cases...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Faced with the increase in the number of dengue fever cases in the West Indies, Martinique and Guadeloupe have entered the epidemic phase since August 17, 2023, according to...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The World Health Organization (WHO) director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, said in a media briefing Wednesday: Bangladesh is experiencing its most severe outbreak of...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Ministry of Health issued a health alert due to the large increase in dengue cases. At epidemiological week 34, which covers from August 20 to 26, 8,261 cases of dengue are...

600 dengue fever cases have been counted in Mali, with 21 people confirmed by officials to have been killed by the mosquito-borne disease.

Chinese authorities warn residents to stay at home and threaten punishment for ‘spreading rumors’ of the disease.

NewsDesk @bactiman63 In a follow-up on our report about suspected Nipah virus cases/deaths in Kerala state, India, Kerala Health Services released the following earlier today (computer translated):...