Nipah virus is a fatal zoonotic disease transmitted from Pteropus bats to humans, typically through consumption of raw date palm sap contaminated by bat excretions. Date palm harvesters sometimes use a skirt-like barrier called a bana to protect the date palm sap from bats. The Government of...

In the past two years, during April-October, 39 anthrax outbreaks in humans were reported from 13 districts in Bangladesh. Collaborative teams from the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) and icddr,b investigated 25 of those outbreaks in five districts where 190...

Since March 2007, the Government of Bangladesh has been conducting a mass media campaign to disseminate 10 recommended precautions to prevent transmission of highly pathogenic avian influenza A virus subtype H5N1 from poultry to humans. We conducted this study to assess backyard poultry raisers'...

Since August 2009, there have been intermittent reports of human and animal anthrax outbreaks in different parts of Bangladesh. Recently, seven outbreaks were investigated during August and September 2010, in Pabna and Sirajganj districts. Bacillus anthracis was provisionally detected from...

The most common transmission pathway of Nipah virus from fruit bats to humans in Bangladesh is through drinking raw date palm sap. In July 2011, the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) and icddr,b investigated a cluster of 7 encephalitis patients in Rangpur district; 4...

During 24 August to 29 October 2009, a multi-disciplinary investigation team identified three outbreaks of sudden illness and death in cattle and goats, and skin lesions in humans in three villages in two districts in North-Western Bangladesh. The animal illness was characterized by sudden onset of ...