Spain: Locally acquired Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever case reported in...
On 8 August 2018, a case of Crimea-Congo virus infection, acquired locally, was reported in Spain, in the Autonomous Community of Castile and León. The case was a 74-year-old man who died during...
View ArticleSpain reports 1st local transmission of dengue fever
The National Center for Microbiology of the Carlos III Health Institute confirmed recently (computer translated) the first known documented autochthonous dengue transmission in Spain. Two people living...
View ArticleSpain reports Naegleria fowleri survivor: Report
The free-living amoeba, Naegleria fowleri was first discovered in the 1960s by Dr. Malcolm Fowler and Dr. Rod Carter in Australia. Several hundred cases have been documented worldwide with few...
View ArticleDengue in Spain: 3rd autochthonous case confirmed
The first documented autochthonous dengue transmission in Spain In a follow-up on the indigenous dengue fever cases in Spain, this week the Spanish Ministry of Health (computer translated) confirmed a...
View ArticleSpain: Mumps outbreak at the University of Valencia
The Ministry of Health reported Wednesday on an outbreak of mumps in students at the University of Valencia, according to an El Mundo report (computer translated). To date, six cases have been...
View ArticleSpain dengue: Two additional autochthonous cases reported in Murcia
In a follow-up on the locally transmitted dengue fever cases reported in the Region of Murcia, Spain (HERE and HERE), the Ministry of Health of Murcia and the National Center for Microbiology (CNM) of...
View ArticleDengue fever: Autochthonous case reported in Catalonia
In a follow-up on the local transmission of dengue fever in Spain, a young man from Barcelona was diagnosed with dengue fever in Catalonia earlier this month. The patient had no recent travel history....
View ArticleSpain reports rubella outbreak in Aragón, 1st time in years
Health officials in Spain are reporting an outbreak of rubella in the Aragón region in northeastern Spain, according to a local news source (computer translated). The outbreak that has affected 12...
View ArticleMumps outbreak in Madrid: Dozens of cases reported at Pontifical University...
Health officials in Madrid, Spain are reporting a mumps outbreak at the Higher Technical School of Engineering (ICAI) of the Pontifical University of Comillas , according to a Que report (computer...
View ArticleNaegleria fowleri: Researchers develop product to eliminate amoeba in...
The University Institute of Tropical Diseases and Public Health of the Canary Islands (IUETSPC) of the University of La Laguna, together with the company Aguas Canarias Research and Development...
View ArticleChikungunya Lab Error
About 2 weeks ago, news media were reporting of some tourists from Iceland who contracted the mosquito-borne virus, Chikungunya while vacationing in Spain. Turns out the laboratory in Iceland made an...
View ArticleListeria outbreak hits Spain, Most in Andalusia
By NewsDesk @infectiousdiseasenews An outbreak of listeriosis in Spain has sickened about 155 people to date, killing one, according to the health authorities. The Spanish Health Ministry said it was...
View ArticleSpain Listeria outbreak: 175 cases per health ministry
By NewsDesk @infectiousdiseasenews In a follow-up on the Listeria monocytogenes outbreak linked to roasted meat in Spain, official Ministry of Health numbers (computer translated) put the case tally...
View ArticleOutbreak News Across The Globe, Episode 1
By NewsDesk @infectiousdiseasenews In this new, hopefully weekly series I’m calling–Outbreak News Across The Globe, I’ll be looking at one big outbreak or infectious disease news story from 6 or the 7...
View ArticleSpain Listeria outbreak: More than 200 cases, 3 deaths
By NewsDesk @infectiousdiseasenews In a follow-up on the listeriosis outbreak in Spain associated with the consumption of roasted pork meat, Spanish health officials report (computer translated) an...
View ArticleSpain reports dengue local transmission in Catalonia
By NewsDesk @infectiousdiseasenews The Epidemiological Surveillance Urgency Service (SUVEC) of the Epidemiological Surveillance Network of Catalonia (XVEC) reported this week (computer translated) on...
View ArticleCDC travel notice: Dengue in Spain and France
By NewsDesk @infectiousdiseasenews The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently issued a travel notice for travelers to the Mediterranean region, in particular to France and Spain due...
View ArticleDengue sexual transmission reported in Madrid
By NewsDesk @bactiman63 A young man in Madrid, Spain has been diagnosed with dengue fever contacted via sexual transmission, one of the first cases of sexual transmission of dengue in the world,...
View ArticleRabies: Human case reported in Spain, Contracted in Morocco
By NewsDesk @infectiousdiseasenews Officials with the National Center for Microbiology (CNM) have confirmed a man admitted to the Cruces hospital (Bizkaia, or Biscay) suffers from rabies. It is...
View ArticleEurope: Salmonella the most common cause of foodborne outbreaks; Slovakia,...
Nearly one in three foodborne outbreaks in the EU in 2018 were caused by Salmonella. This is one of the main findings of the annual report on trends and sources of zoonoses published today by the...
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