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 CDC and public health officials in several states are investigating multistate outbreaks of Salmonella infections linked to contact with backyard poultry. In total, 219 illnesses...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 In an article in today’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), the authors of the case report discuss the exposure to rabies of some 13 people due to the translocation...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported five people infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Duisburg, a rare Salmonella serotype,...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 Officials with Zoo Knoxville report that one Malayan tigers has tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. According to the zoo, Arya, a 6-year-old female and Bashir and Tanvir, 11-year-old...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Tennessee state health officials announced the state’s first case of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus.  The patient is an adult male from Williamson County who had...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Is hepatitis A and the large outbreaks in the US the ‘Rodney Dangerfield’ of infectious diseases in America? There was a recent article that listed the...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Officials with the Metro Public Health Department (MPHD) in Nashville, TN report the hepatitis A outbreak increased by seven cases in the past month, bringing the...

By NewsDesk    @infectiousdiseasenews Since the hepatitis A outbreak began in December 2017, Tennessee state health officials now put the outbreak case count at 2,022. Of this total, six out of ten...

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported in an update today that ten more people infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella have been reported, bringing the total to 27 people. Two...