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Between January and August 2015, one hundred and thirty people in New York City were infected with Legionnaires', but the majority of them were in the Bronx. [ 2 ] Legionnaires Disease is an acute type of pneumonia that is caused by the inhalation of aerosolized water containing the Legionella bacteria . [ 3 ]
Another growing disease, especially prevalent in New York City hospitals, is the drug-resistant, Gram-negative Klebsiella pneumoniae. An estimated more than 20% of the Klebsiella infections in Brooklyn hospitals "are now resistant to virtually all modern antibiotics, and those supergerms are now spreading worldwide."
Tuberculosis deaths in New York (state) (118 P) Pages in category "Infectious disease deaths in New York (state)" The following 53 pages are in this category, out of 53 total.
Dr. Lyle Petersen, director of CDC’s vector-borne diseases division, which is based in Colorado, recalled driving a 20-mile radius outside New York City to find infected mosquitoes.
By mid-May 2019, measles cases in the United States had passed 800, with New York having the largest number of cases, with 274 to that point. [14] On September 3, 2019, the New York City Health Department declared the outbreak to be over, due to the passage of a sufficient period of time with no new cases being reported in the city. [15]
Daniel O’Connell Griffin (born 15 July 1967) is an American infectious disease specialist. He is president of the nonprofit organization Parasites Without Borders. [1]Co-director of Life Science podcast network Microbe.TV, [2] Griffin broadcasts a weekly COVID Clinical Update [3] as part of This Week in Virology (TWiV) podcasts.
More than 2,400 patients at hospitals around Portland, Oregon, may have been exposed to infectious diseases such as hepatitis B and C, as well as HIV, because of an anesthesiologist who may not ...
Daniel R. Lucey is an American physician, researcher, clinical professor of medicine of infectious diseases at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, and a research associate in anthropology at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, where he has co-organised an exhibition on eight viral outbreaks.