Eastern equine encephalitis

Measles tripled. Hepatitis A mushroomed. A rare but deadly mosquito-borne disease increased.  And that was just the United States. Globally, there was an explosion of measles in many countries, an unrelenting Ebola outbreak in Africa and a surge in dengue fever in Asia. There were also backslides in some diseases, like polio, that the world was close to wiping out.  "It’s been a tough year for infectious diseases,” said Dr. […]