NewsDesk @bactiman63 In Japan, officials in Kumamoto Prefecture report a Japanese encephalitis (JE) case in a man in his 70s from Tamana County this past week. This is the first confirmed case in Japan...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Japan’s National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID) reported an additional 207 syphilis cases across the country through the end of August, bringing the total since the...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Here are the five most popular posts on Outbreak News Today for the month of July 2023: 5. Poland: Avian Influenza A(H5N1) virus in cats update In a follow-up on the H5N1 avian...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Japan National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID) reports 18 measles cases this year through June 21. Cases were reported from Tokyo (6), Osaka (4), Ibaraki (1), Chiba (1),...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 In Japan, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare announced on June 23 that the number of new COVID-19 cases reported from about 5,000 medical institutions nationwide for fixed-point...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 A woman in her 70s died in Ibaraki Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, after contracting the Oz virus, making her case the world’s first death by the possibly tick-borne infection,...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Ibaraki Prefectural Government reports an anisakiasis infection in a woman in her 40s who ate several kinds of raw fish at the Kaiten-zushi Morita sushi restaurant near the Nakaminato...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Syphilis Japan is seeing the record spread of syphilis this year, reporting a some 20 percent increase from 2022. In a follow-up on the situation, Nationally through June 7, National...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Syphilis The Japan National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID) reports 5,164 total syphilis cases through May 17. This compares to 3,630 cases during the same period last year. Tokyo...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Japan health officials reported eight additional monkeypox, or mpox cases from May 1, 2023 to May 7, 2023, bringing the country total to 135. The latest cases include seven from...