In last week’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the CDC revealed, in 2011, La Crosse Virus (LACV) surpassed West Nile Virus (WNV) as the leading
UNICEF released a statement this week warning of the fast-growing cholera outbreak in the Sahel region of west and central Africa. So far this year,
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
Dr. Paul Farmer, co-founder of Partners In Health (PIH) and Chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, had
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
While cats have been adored as pets for many years, these popular pets can be hosts to an interesting parasite. A Danish study published in
Canadian news organizations reported Monday that another 23 bison carcasses were found in Canada’s Northwest Territories. Last week the Northwest Territories Department of Environmental and
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
An outbreak of tuberculosis has infected eight percent of the people in the small Northern Quebec community of Kangiqsualujjuaq, Nunavik. Officials believe the outbreak stems
Tuberculosis, the disease once known as consumption, has remained a global source of concern for centuries. And in Florida, the public-health issue has gained yet