Category: Emerging Infectious Diseases
Bubonic plague cases reported in North China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
Outbreak News Today Two more cases of bubonic plague were reported in North China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on Sunday, following an earlier case reported on August 7. The two newly infected patients are the husband and daughter of the previous case, said local govt. All close contacts have been quarantined and show no symptoms.
Aug 15, 2023
Outbreaks of avian influenza caused by influenza A(H5N1) in the Region of the Americas – August 2023
PAHO As of epidemiological week (EW) 31 of 2023, agricultural authorities in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, The United States of America, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela have detected outbreaks of HPAI A(H5N1) viruses in domestic birds, farm poultry and/or wild birds, and in mammals. Among the […]
Aug 13, 2023
Walgreens Shows Highest Covid-19 Test Positivity Levels Since May 2021
Forbes Are you positive that Covid-19 cases are on the upswing this Summer? With the lack of an accurate and reliable national Covid-19 surveillance system, it may be hard to tell what the heck is really happening with the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in the U.S. But there are several indications that […]
Aug 8, 2023
Bird Flu Has Never Done This Before
The Atlantic Experts worry that H5N1 avian influenza is now endemic in North America. At bird breeding grounds this spring and summer, the skies have been clearer and quieter, the flocks drastically thinned. Last year, more than 60 percent of the Caspian terns at Lake Michigan vanished; the flock of great skuas at the Hermaness reserve, in Scotland, may have […]
Aug 8, 2023
A new clue to the reason some people come down with long COVID
NPR Stéphanie Longet is an immunologist and a COVID researcher at the University of Saint-Etienne in France, and just like 10-20% of adults who were infected with the virus, she continues to have symptoms well after her infection has resolved – a condition known colloquially as long COVID. “I got COVID one year ago and I […]
Aug 8, 2023
Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever case reported in North Macedonia
Outbreak News Today The Institute of Public Health of the Republic of North Macedonia reported of a confirmed case of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) in a 27-year-old woman from the village of Kuchica, municipality of Karbinci, Štip. The patient presented with initial symptoms of the disease (high temperature up to 38.6°C, severe headache, malaise and vomiting) started on […]
Aug 8, 2023
What to know about EG.5, the most prevalent covid subvariant in the U.S.
Washington Post The coronavirus has not disappeared. With the advent of successful vaccinations and better social management, however, it has waned. Globally, over 1 million new covid-19 cases and more than 3,100 deaths were reported in the 28 days up to Aug. 3, according to the latest World Health Organization report — bringing the death toll to almost […]
Aug 8, 2023
Meet ‘Eris,’ a leading U.S. COVID variant likely driving up infections and hospitalizations this summer
Fortune A new family of COVID variants is on the rise in the U.S. and abroad—one experts say is likely responsible for a rising tide of infections and hospitalizations. The World Health Organization recently designated EG.5 a “variant under monitoring” due to its steady global growth. Reports of EG.5, detected in 45 countries so far, […]
Aug 8, 2023
Florida local transmission of dengue cases now 10, New cases reported in Broward and Miami-Dade counties
Outbreak News Today Florida state health officials reported four additional cases of locally acquired dengue were in the past week from Broward (2) and Miami-Dade (2) counties. Until 2009, there were no reports of dengue acquired in Florida since 1934. In 2009 -2010, an outbreak of dengue was identified in Key West. A total 22 […]
Aug 8, 2023
Bubonic plague case reported in Mongolian capital
Xinhua One case of bubonic plague was confirmed in Mongolia’s capital here on Tuesday, according to the country’s National Center for Zoonotic Diseases (NCZD). The infected man ate marmot meat last week, the NCZD said, adding that he and five others in close contact with him are now being isolated and treated. While hunting marmots […]
Aug 8, 2023