NewsDesk @bactiman63 Georgia state health officials report a resident has died from Naegleria fowleri infection, a rare infection which destroys brain tissue, causing brain swelling and usually death. The...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Over the past period, 8 cases of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) have been recorded in Georgia, mainly in the regions of Samtskhe-Javakheti and Shida Kartli, director of the...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Five-year-old boy dies of rabies at Indus Hospital A five-year-old boy became the first victim of rabies encephalitis as he died at the Indus Hospital Karachi on Friday night, 45...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Florida Department of Health (DOH) and the state health departments of Georgia and Alabama have detected a Salmonella outbreak associated with the consumption of raw oysters...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Federal and state health officials report investigating a multistate outbreak of norovirus illnesses linked to raw oysters from Texas. As of December 15, 211 illnesses have been...

NewsDesk @bactiman63  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a food safety alert this week regarding a multistate outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes infections. Six people infected...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports a human infection with a novel influenza A virus that was reported by the Georgia Department of Public Health. The patient...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Three people are being treated at the Tbilisi Infectious Diseases Hospital for a serious infectious disease – Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF), Amiran Gamkrelidze, head...

Heartland virus is circulating in lone star ticks in Georgia, scientists at Emory University have found, confirming active transmission of the virus within the state. The journal Emerging Infectious Diseases...

NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) has been notified of a Georgia resident currently in New Jersey who has tested positive for COVID-19 and the Omicron variant. The...