Introduction: In 2009, a 70-year-old woman in Tokyo, Japan was hospitalized with an ear infection that did not seem to improve with antibiotics [4].
Month: September 2018
On 11 September 2018, HealthMap noted a news- media report of a mystery disease in Kanchanrup Municipality of Saptari in Nepal. The original report
On 11 September 2018, HealthMap noted a news- media report of a mystery disease in Kanchanrup Municipality of Saptari in Nepal. The original report
On 5 September 2018, HealthMap noted multiple news-media reports and twitter posts of sick passengers on an Emirates flight, which had landed at John
Since the 2014 West African Ebola outbreak that claimed more than 11,000 lives, the mere mention of Ebola hemorrhagic fever is enough to send
On September 3, 2018, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported a single confirmed case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS Co-V or MERS)
This week’s NTD is a condition that is produced by a bacterium belonging to the same family of microbes that cause leprosy and
Summer is the time of year when public health messaging reminds us of foodborne infections from bacteria like Salmonella, E.coli and Listeria. While these