Emerging Infectious Diseases

  • Surveillance System Targets Emerging Infectious Disease Hotspots
    A team of researchers have developed a method to identify the cause of infectious disease outbreaks based on online reports about the symptoms, the season, and the ratio of cases to fatalities. Using data from the Internet outbreak reporting system ProMED-mail, the ...More
    February 8, 2013
    Posted in News
  • Lancet Series Focuses on Controlling Emerging Infectious Diseases, Preventing the 'Next HIV'
    The British medical journal, The Lancet, has issued a special series of articles focused on emerging zoonoses (human diseases that originate in or are shared with animals). The featured papers are authored by leading scientists, many of whom collaborate with the U.S. Agency ...More
    December 2, 2012
    Posted in News
  • Emerging Vectorborne Diseases Create New Public Health Challenges
    Land-use change, globalization of trade and travel, and social upheaval are driving the emergence of diseases in many regions, experts sayWest Nile virus, Lyme disease, dengue fever, and plague are examples of "vector-borne zoonotic diseases," caused by pathogens that ...More
    December 1, 2012
    Posted in News
  • Scientists Question the Designation of Some Emerging Diseases
    The Ebola, Marburg and Lassa viruses are commonly referred to as emerging diseases, but leading scientists say these life-threatening viruses have been around for centuries. In a perspective in the Nov. 9 issue of the journal Science, researchers including a professor at ...More
    November 14, 2012
    Posted in News
  • New Pathogen Epidemic Identified in Sub-Saharan Africa
    A new study reveals that the emergence and spread of a rapidly evolving invasive intestinal disease, that has a significant mortality rate (up to 45 percent) in infected people in sub-Saharan Africa, seems to have been potentiated by the HIV epidemic in Africa. The team ...More
    October 1, 2012
    Posted in News
  • Genetic Sleuthing Uncovers Deadly New Virus in Africa
    An isolated outbreak of a deadly disease known as acute hemorrhagic fever, which killed two people and left one gravely ill in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the summer of 2009, was probably caused by a novel virus scientists have never seen before. Described this week ...More
    October 1, 2012
    Posted in News
  • Acute Respiratory Illness Associated with a New Virus Identified in the UK
    Britain's Health Protection Agency (HPA) is confirming the diagnosis of one laboratory-confirmed case of severe respiratory illness associated with a new type of coronavirus. The patient, who is from the Middle East and recently arrived in the UK, is receiving intensive ...More
    September 25, 2012
    Posted in News
  • CDC Disease Sleuths Discover New Human Pathogen
    A report on the discovery of a new human pathogen, named “Heartland virus” was published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine. In the paper, authors from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Heartland Regional Medical Center describe the ...More
    August 30, 2012
    Posted in News
  • New Strain of Hand, Foot and Mouth Virus Worries Parents, Pediatricians
    Your child goes to bed in perfect health. The next morning she wakes up with high fever, malaise and bright red blisters erupting all over her body. Johns Hopkins Children’s Center dermatologists say the disturbing scenario has become quite common in the last few months, ...More
    August 24, 2012
    Posted in News
  • Emerging Gastrointestinal Pathogen Linked With Human Fecal Contamination
    A gastrointestinal pathogen associated with fecal contamination was present in 97 of 129 water samples taken from four beaches on the Lake Erie coast of Ohio according to research published in the August issue of Applied and Environmental Microbiology. Substantial numbers ...More
    August 23, 2012
    Posted in News
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