Radio Dabanga, a news source from central Darfur, reports that a new, unknown fever has killed 37 individuals over the past three weeks in western
The WHO published its annual Global Tuberculosis Report 2012 last week, providing a recap of the latest data and analysis regarding the tuberculosis epidemic. The
This morning, Uganda’s New Vision reported a sixth suspected death in the Marburg outbreak. The Kabale District Director of Health Services, Dr. Patrick Tusiime, has
The Saudi Arabian government has banned people from Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) from making this year’s pilgrimage to Mecca because of
The source of Germany’s largest foodborne outbreak in history, which resulted in at least 11,200 sick school children, has been identified as frozen, imported strawberries
Just a few weeks after Uganda was declared free of Ebola, a second hemorrhagic fever strikes. On Friday, Oct. 19, the Uganda Ministry of Health
Health Secretary Lorenzo Gonzalez Feliciano announced Monday, Oct. 8 that Puerto Rico is in the grips of a dengue epidemic. At least six people have
Nine people were diagnosed with cholera in Hubei province in central China. The victims of this outbreak all attended a wedding on Oct. 3 which
This past summer, The Disease Daily reported on emerging and re-emerging tick-borne illnesses in the United States. Cases of Lyme disease have more than doubled
A rare and fatal brain-eating infection killed 10 people in Karachi, Pakistan this year. This waterborne species of amoeba causes primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), a