disease outbreak

CDC Launches New Disease Outbreak Forecasting Center

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officially launched the Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics (CFA) this month, which aims to enable timely and effective decision-making when ...

April 20, 2022BY Naveen Athrappully
China’s Chief Medical Consultant for the Wuhan Coronavirus Is Infected With the Disease

A Chinese medical expert who assured the public that the “Wuhan pneumonia is controllable” has been diagnosed with ...

January 23, 2020BY Olivia Li
Chinese Authorities Suspected of Hiding Possible Spread of African Swine Fever

Authorities did not report an outbreak in a small town in south-central Hunan Province, but locals said pork ...

November 4, 2018BY Sunny Chao
Infectious Diseases Spread Throughout China, Affecting Scores of Children

Chinese officials are tracking a couple of outbreaks of infectious illnesses that mostly affect children. A norovirus outbreak ...

November 1, 2018BY Sunny Chao
18-State Disease Outbreak Linked to Pet Store Puppies

A bacterial infection that has affected over 100 people has been linked to pet store puppies. The outbreak ...

September 25, 2018BY Colin Fredericson
Does Disturbing the Land Boost Human Disease?

Recent outbreaks of Ebola, SARS, and other zoonotic infectious diseases that transmit from animals to humans have made ...

March 12, 2015BY University of California, Santa Barbara