COVID-19: An Army Brigade Approach to Tracking, Management, and Treatment of Soldiers, US Army 18th Military Police Brigade.

As SARS-CoV-2 spread throughout the world military units had to develop ways of combatting risk to ensure force health protection and deployability of their soldiers. Medical functions were impacted and solutions needed to be found in order to incorporate these items as functioning medical platforms. In the following article, we address one unit's individual response to the difficulties faced as a Military Police Brigade in Europe.

Case report: Tick-borne encephalitis virus infection in beneficiaries of the U.S. military healthcare system in southern Germany.

Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) is caused by a flavivirus usually transmitted to humans via the bite of an infected tick. The disease is endemic to central Europe, including Germany where it is a potential threat to U.S.

Painful, swollen, oozing right great toe.

We initially suspected septic arthritis or osteomyelitis in this patient. Further investigation proved it was neither.

A case of taeniasis diagnosed postpartum.

A case of postpartum taeniasis will be discussed along with the pathophysiology, proper treatment, potential risks, and prevention of taeniasis infections to the pregnant mother, her infant, and her family members. Taenia spp. infections are relatively rare in developed societies.

Erythematous penile lesion.

Previous efforts to diagnose the cause of this patient's rash had been unsuccessful. A biopsy confirmed our suspicions.