Measles again - Perth WA, Thailand and Netherlands
Thursday, 9 October, 2008 Press reports indicate that one of the students returning from Thailand following the tragedy of the lightning strike has developed measles which would have been acquired in...
View ArticleOutbreak of a possible new acute disease, West Africa
Outbreak of a possible new acute disease, West Africa Wednesday, 15 October, 2008 Promed has reported today that the results of tests conducted at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta (CDC), USA,...
View ArticleTyphoid in PNG
Monday, 20 October, 2008 There are reports of an outbreak of typhoid fever in the northern coastal province of Morober. Typhoid fever is a serious and potentially fatal disease in which there has been...
View ArticleDengue update Malaysia
Monday, 20 October, 2008 Malaysia is considering imposing a quarantine in a small northern town in the state of Perak as part of efforts to stem a dengue fever outbreak, a news report said 10 Oct 2008....
View ArticleDengue update South Pacific Islands
Tuesday, 28 October, 2008 Dengue fever transmitted by day-biting mosquitoes has been reported regularly from various island states in the South Pacific over the past decade. Currently there is a...
View ArticleAnimal Rabies in north-east Italy
Tuesday, 28 October, 2008 The Ministry of Health has confirmed that a fox which attached a man walking in the forests of Resia district was infected with rabies. Rabies was laboratory confimed on 21...
View ArticleCholera in south China
Monday, 3 November, 2008 Cholera has been identified as the cause of an outbreak of severe diarrhoeal disease among students at Hainan University in the provincial capital city of Haikou. According to...
View ArticleMumps cases in UK University
Monday, 10 November, 2008 Students at the University of Gloucestershire in the west of England are on alert following a mumps outbreak. A total of 10 students in Cheltenham and Gloucester have been...
View ArticleDengue in South America update
Wednesday, 12 November, 2008 ProMED has reported (4th November) that in Brazil, Rio de Janeiro state has registered 250,026 cases of dengue in 2008 through 29 Oct 2008, including 181 confirmed deaths,...
View ArticleBotswana First report of Unusual Parasitic Disease
Monday, 17 November, 2008 Scientists at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases National Health Laboratory Service in Johannesburg, South Africa have identified 2 separate clusters of...
View ArticleCholera severe and widespread in Zimbabwe
Wednesday, 19 November, 2008 In Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is responding to a cholera outbreak which the local Ministry of Health has declared "the biggest ever in...
View ArticleMeningitis in Ghana
Wednesday, 19 November, 2008 Ten people have been confirmed dead and two are hospitalised following an outbreak of meningitis in the Yaw Bronya farming community in the Ashanti Region, 250km north of...
View ArticleDengue update South Pacific - New Caledonia adopts visitor screening.
Monday, 24 November, 2008 The Australian Broadcasting Commission reports that Pacific passengers arriving in New Caledonia are now being screened for possible dengue fever symptoms. Oceania Flash...
View ArticlePossible Rabies on Bali
Thursday, 4 December, 2008 Unconfirmed reports about a cluster of rabies cases in south Bali area of Ungasan have appeared in the local press in Bali. While denials have been made by the local...
View ArticleSouth African death from Haemorrhagic Fever in Brazil
Monday, 8 December, 2008 An official statement has been issued by the Superintendent of Health Surveillance for the Secretary of Municipal Health of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil regarding the...
View ArticleContaminated pork products Ireland Tuesday, 9 December, 2008
Ireland has launched an intensive investigation to establish the source of a toxic substance that forced the recall of all Irish pork products. The Irish government ordered the recall on Saturday [6...
View ArticleMalawi possible rabies exposure alert
Tuesday, 25 November, 2008 The Health Protection Agency of the United Kingdom has been made aware of a case of confirmed rabies in a puppy that may have been in contact with travellers at the Mabuya...
View ArticleSouth African death in Brazil update
Wednesday, 10 December, 2008 Investigations have now shown that the cause of the haemorrhagic fever causing the death of a South African businessman in Rio was not the arenavirus recently reported in...
View ArticlePossible Rabies on Bali - Update
The reports of rabies cases on Bali, have been accepted by the public health authorities as being correct, it appears that laboratory confirmation has been done in Indonesia. We now consider that...
View ArticleMalaysia dengue and chikungunya fevers update
A Health Ministry statement issued on Tuesday (16th December) stated that 44,494 case of dengue fever had been reported over the year in peninsular Malaysia with 1,273 being reported in the week Nov 30...
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