Flu Outbreak Becomes Epidemic in USA
Influenza has officially reached epidemic proportions in the United States, with 7.3 percent of deaths last week caused by pneumonia and the flu, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday.
More than 6,500 German children and teenagers have fallen ill with diarrhoea and vomiting that health authorities say has likely been caused by a food-borne virus in meals delivered to schools and daycare centres. Youngsters from five of Germany's 16 states had been affected by the acute gastroenteritis.
The number of U.S. cases of West Nile virus rose by 19 percent in the latest week, slowing slightly from its earlier pace but still putting this year on track to be the worst outbreak since 2003. So far this year, 3,142 cases have been reported to federal health officials as of Sept. 18, up from 2,636 reported the week before.
An outbreak of measles has been reported from the Uganda-Kenya border region. 3 children have died, dozens more infected.
Outbreak of foot and mouth disease (FMD) has been reported from remote Kurung Kumey district of Arunachal Pradesh, northern India.
The ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo claims three more victims, raising the death toll to 14.
Kala azar disease outbreak in the southern Sudan. More than 200 people admitted to hospitals.
The outbreak of West Nile virus in the USA is the worst since the illness was first observed in the US in 1999. The number of confirmed cases rose by 25% last week to 1,993.
The number of deaths rose to 87, up from 65 a week ago. The death total seems unlikely to break the record of 260 set in the 2002-03 season.
14 people have now been reported to have died in the ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with 29 confirmed cases.
In Uganda, a man who sneaked into an Ebola isolation ward to steal a mobile phone from an infected patient has fallen seriously ill from the hemorrhagic fever after making calls on the stolen phone.
In Kolkata, India and outbreak of Dengue fever has flooded government and private hospitals with dengue patients. 2 people have died and the government seems unable to handle the influx of patients.
11 people have now died in the Legionnaires disease outbreak in Quebec, Canada. 165 people have been infected.
Researchers find alarming global levels of drug-resistant TB. A large, eight-nation study has found worrisome levels of tuberculosis resistant to first- and second-line drugs, along with higher-than-expected levels of extensively drug-resistant TB among the groups tested.
2 people have died in an outbreak of Legionnaires disease at the Chicago Marriott Hotel. 6 further people have been reported as having contracted the disease.
Authorities in Cuba have reported that the recent Cholera outbreak has run its course. 417 people were sickened and 3 people died.
Measels cases continue to be reported in New South Wales, Australia where 78 cases have occurred this year. Communities have been urged to immunise.
Reports of a foot and mouth disease outbreak in Chibombo, Zambia have been refuted by the Government.
The death toll in the ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has risen to 10.
A massive cholera epidemic in the coastal slums of West Africa is killing hundreds of people with thousands more infected.
Syphilis outbreak among porn actors in the California porn industry prompts calls for a halt to filming in the multi-billion dollar industry.
Epidemic of PRR [peste des petits ruminants] in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is a contagious viral disease that has killed tens of thousands of goats and sheep.
Botulism outbreak on a bird farm in Wyoming, USA. 2 700 pheasants have died in the past week.
