The border between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda was closed by the health officials in the DRC. This…
Outbreaks and Updates
The makers of one of the Hib (Heamophilus Influenza) vaccines, Merck, have initiated a voluntary recall of certain batches of…
EuroSurveillance.org released an interesting report of the cases of Chikungunya Virus in Italy. The outbreak appears to be over, due…
Poor Uganda seems to be in the news a lot, recently. First, the Ebola Fever outbreak continues to cause concern…
The Ebola Outbreak in the Bundibugyo district of Uganda continues to attract attention. The CDC released a report of the…
Another fatality has been reported from Fort Portal in Uganda. This case, believed to be Ebola hemorrhagic fever, would make…
Eurosurveillance Weekly Release features an article on an Italian Student that was the center of a measles outbreak in the…
A recent alert from Promed mail brought attention to a re-emergence of hanta virus in New Mexico. The 34 year…
Iraq and Vietnam seem to have the unfortunate position of “top cholera hotspots” according to ProMed’s new diarrheal and cholera…
The ISTM/Geo Sentinel has a news release about a fatal case of African Trypanosomiasis in a tourist traveling through the…