Infectious Diseases Today

The talk radio program on infectious diseases is back in the Tampa Bay area. Starting this November, the Outbreak News This Week Radio Show has returned to the Tampa airwaves with “all the news about worms and germs”.
Show host, Microbiologist and Editor of the the news site, Outbreak News Today, Robert Herriman returns with all the latest news and information about infectious diseases on a new station on the AM dial–860 AM WGUL....

In separate and unrelated events, circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses (cVDPVs) have been confirmed in South Sudan and Madagascar.
South Sudan
In South Sudan, 2 cases due to cVDPV type 2 (cVDPV2) have been confirmed. The strains were isolated from 2 acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) cases in Unity state, with onset of paralysis on 9 September and 12 September 2014, respectively. In Unity state...

On 11 November 2014, the Government of Uganda declared that Uganda was free of the Marburg virus. This declaration was made at the National Media Centre by the Minister of State for Primary Health Care, Hon. Sarah Achieng Opendi.
On 4 October 2014, WHO was notified by the Government of Uganda of a case of Marburg virus disease. The case was a male health professional that developed symptoms on 11 September. On 17 September, the patient was admitted to a district health facility...

The following is the latest update on the global Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) outbreak from the ECDC.
Since April 2012 and as of 13 June 2014, 828 cases of MERS-CoV have been reported by local health authorities worldwide, including 318 deaths....