Update: February 29, 2012
Updated: 2012-02-29 00:48:40
GIDEON what’s new summary: February 26 to February 29, 2012 Infectious Diseases – Outbreaks (4 updates) 4 DiseasesMap Infectious Diseases – Diseases (127 updates) 47 Diseases80 Country notesMap Infectious Diseases – Drugs (2 updates) 1 Interacting drugs – New1 Drug interactions – New Microbiology – Bacteria (3 updates) 1 New Bacteria Added1 Microbes – New1 [...]

Leprosy data for the Western Pacific Region indicate that disease incidence is highest in the Philippines, Vietnam and China. In the following graph, I have contrasted incidence and prevalence statistics for countries mentioned in the ProMED note, with population-adjusted rates for these same data. [1,2] Note that the numbers of cases per 100,000 population are [...]
The following background data on Plague in Uganda are abstracted from Gideon www.GideonOnline.com and the Gideon e-book series. [1,2] The earliest record of plague in Africa was a report by missionaries in Uganda in 1877, and reporting statistics for much of the continent have been documented for more than 100 years. A series of plague [...]