Outbreak

The Indian state of Kerala issued a health alert on Monday after a 14-year-old boy died of the Nipah virus. Over a hundred other residents in the area have been identified as high-risk potential patients.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a warning for a rapidly spreading fungal infection called Candida auris that holds a 60 percent kill rate.

China’s outbreak of pediatric respiratory disease marches on, spreading far wider and lasting longer than Communist Party health officials anticipated.

At least 99 infections and two deaths have been linked to a salmonella outbreak stemming from recalled cantaloupes, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced Friday.

U.S. health officials are warning about a salmonella outbreak connected to raw flour that has made several people ill.

The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) said on Thursday that eight new cases of the deadly Marburg disease have been reported in Equatorial Guinea, bringing the total of confirmed and probable cases to 20 since the mysterious outbreak began in February. Tanzania surprisingly reported five deaths this week in that country’s first known Marburg infections.

The nation’s capital is experiencing the largest outbreak of monkeypox per capita, WTOP news reported Monday.

The strange public relations campaign surrounding the monkeypox outbreak took another turn on Saturday, as the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) announced it would no longer distinguish between “endemic and non-endemic countries” to create a more “unified response” to the disease.

After discovering four positive cases of monkeypox, Belgian health authorities have placed those with confirmed cases of the virus into a 21-day quarantine. As of Sunday, Belgian authorities announced four confirmed cases of the virus and have called on anyone

The House Freedom Caucus sent Biden a letter demanding he stand against the W.H.O.’s push for a “global pandemic treaty.”

Sweden and Italy are the latest countries to report cases of the so-called “Monkeypox”, with others already reported in Spain and the UK.

LONDON (AP) — Britain deployed public health officials, supported by the army, to distribute coronavirus tests door-to-door in two northern England towns on Saturday in an effort to contain a fast-spreading variant that threatens plans to lift all lockdown restrictions next month.

A significant number of states will reopen their colleges and universities by the fall, while K-12 schools will follow suit on a jurisdiction by jurisdiction basis, the nation’s top disease official told lawmakers this week.

China is lying about the state of coronavirus within its territory while enjoying support from U.S. news media, said Frank Gaffney.

The GOP faces a political “extinction event” if they block economic relief to those financially hit by the coronavirus, warned Alan Tonelson.

A poll has claimed that just one in five Germans are confident that Angela Merkel’s government can handle a widespread outbreak of the coronavirus.

The populist League president of a region with the highest Coronavirus cases has slammed EU states for discriminating against his region. 

A Swedish infection prevention doctor has questioned the ability of the Swedish state to handle a major outbreak of Coronavirus.

The Chinese healthcare system is in shambles,” stated Dr. Nicole Saphier while discussing the ongoing coronvavirus outbreak in China.

Communist China’s government is growing increasingly uneasy about the Wuhan virus, an outbreak the Chinese have been accused of covering up until the infections and fatalities became impossible to deny.

The Georgia Department of Public Health announced on Monday that the Sheraton Atlanta hosted “the largest recorded Legionella outbreak in Georgia.”

British public health officials are concerned by the number of Muslim parents who could refuse to let their children receive the flu vaccine after the Muslim Council of Britain ruled the drug to be ‘non-halal’ and forbidden by Islam.

Ugandan authorities this week repatriated the relatives of the two people known to have succumbed to the Ebola virus within its borders back to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Africa News reported this weekend.

High-security burials of Ebola victims from the worst outbreak of the virus ever experienced in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are keeping relatives at a distance, triggering anger and trauma among the central African country’s residents, the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency reported this week.

New Jersey Health Commissioner Dr. Shereef Elnahal said Sunday a ninth child has died from a virus that spread through a healthcare center.

Kellogg is recalling Honey Smacks — the breakfast cereal with the green frog mascot — after government health officials said the product was linked to a salmonella outbreak in several states.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration are investigating the multi-state outbreak of contaminated melon.

After spreading to half the country and infecting more than 120 people, the E. coli outbreak claims its first life.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are investigating a mysterious outbreak of E. coli bacteria that has now spread across multiple state lines.

Throngs of protesters from Irvine, Huntington Beach, and Laguna Niguel shouted-down an Orange County Supervisors meeting to force a reversal of the plan to set up homeless tent camps next to local city parks.

The Los Angeles City Council voted last week to develop an “emergency” plan that could operate trailer and tent encampments to house 34,000-homeless — similar to the plan developed by Orange County.

The three cities where Orange County planned to erect tent camps to warehouse evicted Santa Ana River homeless people are threatening lawsuits to block the move.

Orange County found 13,950 used hypodermic needles left by evicted homeless people along the Santa Ana River, confirming public health concerns that led to the camps’ removal.

A sick passenger arriving on an international flight last Wednesday may have exposed hundreds of travelers at Chicago O’Hare Airport to measles.

A flu outbreak triggered a North Texas school district to shut its doors on Tuesday and Wednesday, top administrators announced Monday.

A Central Texas hotel temporarily closed its doors last week once public health officials disclosed an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease, a severe and sometimes deadly form of pneumonia.