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Histoplasmosis in Travelers
In 2019, several Canadian tourists acquired histoplasmosis while exploring caves in Cuba. The Gideon database maintains an ongoing record of all cross-border Infectious Diseases events, including...
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Japanese Encephalitis in India
Outbreaks in Japanese encephalitis (JE) / Acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) have been reported from Assam and Uttar Pradesh in recent weeks. Since 2008, official reports from India do distinguish...
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Venereal Diseases in Europe
As of 2017, the reported incidence of syphilis in the European Union is higher that that of HIV infection. In the following chart, I’ve contrasted trends of venereal diseases for the region. [1]...
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Campylobacteriosis in Scandinavia
For more than twenty years, rates of campylobacteriosis in Scandinavia have been 50% above those of Europe as a whole. [1]. During 1995 to 2000, approximately 20-to-60 cases per 100,000 were reported...
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India: Diphtheria, Pertussis and Tetanus
Although global incidences of Diphtheria, Pertussis and Tetanus declined dramatically during the second half of the twentieth century, relatively high rates for these diseases continue to be reported...
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Coccidioidomycosis in the United States
Although largely limited to the western and southwestern states, Coccidioidomycosis is more commonly reported than legionellosis. More Americans die from Coccidioidomycosis than from the other two...
View ArticleViral Agents of Childhood Respiratory Tract Infection in the United States
As of October, 2019 Gideon www.GideonOnline.com and the Gideon e-book series contain details of 69,204 epidemiological surveys – of which 1,107 (1.6%) are related to the prevalence of specific viral...
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Cryptosporidiosis in Sweden
The incidence of cryptosporidiosis in Scandinavia has increased dramatically in recent years. As shown in the following chart, rates in Sweden per 100,000 population are approximately twice those...
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Ebola, forgotten but not gone
written by Dr. Stephen A. Berger, Dr. Yaakov Dickstein, and Edward Borton The recent WHO decision to declare the novel coronavirus outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC),...
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Is COVID-19 the new plague?
written by Dr. Stephen A. Berger A frightening pandemic arises from animals in Asia and spreads westward, killing thousands in Italy, France, Spain, and many other countries. The more severe infections...
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