On the evening of July 29, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni issued a statement on the current Ebola outbreak, in which he called on Ugandans to
Author: Anna Tomasulo
Update: According to USAToday , Ugandan Officials and WHO representatives report that the illness is Ebola. Sixteen people are reported dead in Uganda from a
The Indiana State Department of Health is investigating the potential outbreak of variant influenza A virus, or swine flu. Shortly after the LaPorte County Fair,
Six new outbreaks of African Swine Fever (ASF) were reported this week from Russia’s Tver and Volgograd regions. Only one of the outbreaks is in
Despite epidemics in recent years in the neighboring countries of Lithuania, Latvia and Belarus, Estonia has reportedly been fire blight-free until this year. Estonia’s Viljandi
Update: South Dakota just reported its first WNV case of the season. The case was detected in a blood donor who was not sick. Over the past
Wednesday, July 11, Mass. health officials announced finding four mosquitoes infected with Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE). Catherine Brown, State Public Health Veterinarian, stated that they
A new case of vCJD, or variant Creutzfeld-Jakob disease has been reported in France. The French press is not yet reporting the location of the
Doctors from the Pasteur Institute in Phnom Penh, Cambodia announced on Sunday, July 8, that the mystery illness is Hand, Foot and Mouth disease, a
Over the past two weeks, British Columbia has been in a tizzy over the proposed Animal Health Care Act, legislation that prohibits certain parties from