disease surveillance

Leo Smith, Deepa Bharath-Orange County Register The Orange County Health Care Agency announced Thursday, November 9th, that the first death in the county due to the seasonal flu was a young toddler. The previously healthy male toddler, infected with influenza A virus, was not vaccinated against…

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there were an estimated 90,000 deaths caused by measles during 2016, which is about an 80% decrease in measles deaths compared to the year 2000. Overall, measles deaths have been consistently declining over the last decade, due in large part to the…

California is facing a mass outbreak of hepatitis A, with 569 cases currently reported. Most of the cases have predominantly occurred in San Diego County, but the recent spread of the disease has led to cases occurring in Los Angeles and Santa Cruz counties and there is fear that the disease could…

A fourth person has died in what the New York City Health Department is describing as an "unusual" spike in Legionnaires' disease in the Bronx, officials said Saturday. The news comes as two more Bronx buildings tested positive for the legionella bacteria... Read more

In South Korea, schools are starting to reopen and hundreds are coming out of quarantine as the Asian MERS outbreak appears to slow down. Middle East respiratory syndrome has infected 150 and killed 16 people in South Korea since mid-May. And as it has become clear in the past week, this health…

SEOUL, South Korea — Fears of the deadly virus that causes Middle East respiratory syndrome enveloped South Korea on Wednesday as the authorities nearly doubled the number of quarantined people they say may have been exposed, temporarily closed more than 700 kindergartens and schools and refused to…

Representatives of more than 150 health care organizations, medical schools, pharmaceutical companies federal health agencies and food-production interests will meet at the White House today for a day-long “Forum on Antibiotic Stewardship,” the first of its kind. The Forum is a day-long meeting, to…