USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is launching new efforts to help prevent the introduction and spread of African swine fever in the U.S. Through an outreach and awareness campaign called “Protect Our Pigs,”
APHIS will support commercial pork producers, veterinarians, and pig owners with information and
Continue Reading APHIS turns attention to swine fever after months of battling avian flu
The Chief Veterinary Officer in Haiti on Sept. 20 reported a positive case of African swine fever (ASF) to the World Organisation for Animal Health. The sample was collected from a pig in a province bordering the Dominican Republic and was tested by USDA’s National Veterinary Services Laboratories through a
United Nations peacekeepers from Nepal likely did bring cholera into Haiti in the wake of the devastating earthquake last year, according to a new study published this week in mBio, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology.
A separate group of researchers last week also published a study
Continue Reading Nepal Likely Source of Haiti's Cholera Outbreak
In the search for the cause of Haiti’s recent cholera outbreak, which has claimed more than 4,500 lives and sickened 300,000 people, the finger of blame cannot be pointed at a single source, says a new report.
According to an independent panel of experts commissioned by the United Nations
The rice harvest in northwestern Haiti is likely to suffer over widespread fear among farmers about cholera contamination, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization announced this week.
Haiti’s cholera outbreak, which has sickened almost 150,000 and killed almost 3,000, was magnified by the November floods caused
by hurricane Tomas, which
Continue Reading Rice Farmers in Haiti Fear Cholera Contamination
Speculation that United Nation Nepalese peacekeepers brought Cholera to earthquake-ravaged Haiti gained some legitimacy this week. French epidemiologist Renaud Piarroux conducted an evaluation of the outbreak and concluded that the outbreak, which has killed at least 2,000 people, originated right next to a UN base outside of the town of
Continue Reading Cholera Outbreak in Haiti Likely from UN Troops
The cholera epidemic in Haiti is spreading faster than public health agencies originally estimated, the senior United Nations official said on Tuesday.
In a few short weeks since the outbreak began, 1,344 people have lost their lives to the disease, which has rocked an already struggling, earthquaked-ravaged Haiti, trying to
A woman who recently returned to Florida from Haiti has a laboratory-confirmed case of cholera, Florida Department of Health (FDOH) officials announced Thursday.
“We are working with our health care partners to ensure appropriate care of this individual and prevent the spread of this disease within the community,” said Dr.
In 2001, Bob Dell left his career as a water treatment scientist to volunteer for children affected by AIDS in Africa. But when he followed a group of Ugandan children to their local water source and saw that they drank from the same pond as the cows, he found a
Cholera has reached Port-au-Prince, the Haitian health ministry reported Tuesday.
The first confirmed case of Cholera in the country’s capital city was a 3-year-old boy who the ministry said had no contact with anyone to the north from the Artibonite region, where the outbreak of the waterborne disease began. By
