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A Conservative Estimate For Dengue Fever Infections in India: 37 Million Each Year

(Smithsonian) Dengue is a viral infection that can be pretty benign; you get a fever, a headache, maybe some pain, and you’re out of commission for a few days. It can also be just awful, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: severe headache, pain behind the eyes, a rash, bleeding gums Read More »

November 8, 2012
| Filed under Asia/Pacific, North America, International, and Public Health
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Further H5N1 Outbreak in Nepal

(The Poultry Site) The outbreak was reported to the OIE by Dr Nar Bahadur Rajwar, Director General, Department of Livestock Services, Department of Livestock Services in Lalitpur, Nepal. The outbreak started on 27 August at Sanepa-2, Sanchal, Lalitpur in Bagmati. The latest outbreak occured in Madhyapur Thimi Municipality -3, Bode, Bhaktapur in the region of Read More »

November 6, 2012
| Filed under Asia/Pacific, North America, Agents & Toxins, Agriculture, and International
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CDC issues travel notice for Uganda due to Marburg outbreak

(The Examiner) With the Marburg hemorrhagic fever (HF) outbreak spreading in Uganda, now being reported from 5 districts in the African country, federal health officials have issued an advisory for travelers to Uganda, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) travel notice Nov.2 The Uganda Ministry of Health officially declared an outbreak Read More »

November 5, 2012
| Filed under Africa, North America, International, and Public Health
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CDC releases report on worldwide influenza projects

(Vaccine News) The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released an annual report on Monday profiling a variety of CDC influenza-related projects from around the world, including epidemiology training, vaccine effectiveness studies and flu surveillance. The CDC began its international flu efforts in 1997 when the agency investigated the first human infections with the Read More »

November 2, 2012
| Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, International, and Research
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New tick disease in Switzerland

(EurekAlert) Until now, we knew that ticks primarily transmit two pathogens to humans in Switzerland: the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi – which causes borreliosis – and the early-summer-meningoencephalitis virus, which can cause cerebral inflammation. Now, microbiologists from the University of Zurich confirm the existence of another tick disease in Switzerland – neoehrlichiosis. The pathogenic bacteria Candidatus Read More »