Tag: outbreak
Health alert issued on Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in Sydney
Australian health authorities are urging hundreds of thousands of people in Sydney to watch for symptoms of Legionnaires’ disease following an outbreak that has hospitalized at least six people. The cases are linked to Sydney’s city center, though the source […]
First coronavirus outbreak reported in Antarctica
The coronavirus has finally reached Antarctica, the last continent previously free from COVID-19. Chile’s armed forces have reported an outbreak among staff at a remote research station near the tip of a peninsula in northernmost Antarctica, including 26 army personnel […]
Bangladesh’s outbreak of deadly Nipah virus
DHAKA – An outbreak of the Nipah virus in northern Bangladesh has killed 30 people since the start of 2011, prompting national health warnings against the fatal pathogen spread by fruit bats. Everyone who got infected, died. “Only by stopping […]
