Last week, Mexico’s top epidemiological official reported a rise in the number of cases of dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) throughout the Gulf coast state of Veracruz. The disease is moving towards Tamaulipas state and is…
Last month, the South African National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) reported an outbreak of Rift Valley Fever (RVF), a viral illness that generally produces relatively mild symptoms of fever, headache, and muscle pains but…
Two stories concerning mosquitoes caught my attention recently. In the age-old “bad news, good news” tradition, it goes like this: “The bad news is that if you drink beer, mosquitoes are more attracted to you…
The US military announced on February 27 that 6 soldiers involved in the Haiti earthquake relief have been diagnosed with malaria. One day later, health authorities declared a dengue fever epidemic in Puerto Rico, which…
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