More than 1,000 people in Bangladesh, the majority of whom are children, have been diagnosed with dengue in the last 24 hours, amid the country's worst outbreak...
Cases of Lyme disease may be three times higher in Britain than previously thought, leading health experts to warn walkers to tuck their trousers into their soc...
VOA's Lisa Schlein contributed to this report. Goma is home to more than a million people and lies directly on Congo's border with Rwanda, where tens of thousands cross on foot daily....
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Officials with the Côte d’Ivoire, or Ivory Coast Ministry of Health report a yellow fever outbreak. According to a press release today (computer translated), Dr...
The west African country Nigeria has introduced a new vaccine registry in an attempt to reduce the flow of counterfeit Yellow Fever Virus certificates....
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In a follow-up on the measles epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), health ministry officials report 120,635 total cases through July 7. 2,162 measles deaths have been recorded....
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Florida health officials are warning of an uptick in a mosquito-borne virus known as Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE)....
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MANILA The Philippines has issued a national alert due to a severe outbreak of dengue fever, a mosquito-transmitted tropical disease that has led to 115,000 i...
Swarms of motorcycle taxis overloaded with passengers and goods weave their way through traffic in the eastern Congolese city of Butembo....
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A measles outbreak at a home for the intellectually disabled has helped push Singapore’s number of known cases for the year to 116, the Health Ministry said yes...
Using genomic surveillance to track the spread of drug-resistant malaria, the scientists found that the strain, known as KEL1/PLA1, has also evolved and picked ...
Health authorities in Victoria have issued a measles warning after a young man arrived in Melbourne Airport who may have been infectious with the disease. The man in his 20s contracted the virus while in the Philippines, and brought it to Australia v...
SYDNEY - Australia’s annual influenza season started unusually early in 2019, and already there are more than 144,000 confirmed cases. At least 231 people have ...
In Summary The disease has left one person dead and others hospitalised. County Director of Health Dickens Onyango also reported that four people who were admit...
Philippine health authorities declared a national alert on Monday, after the number of dengue cases almost doubled since last year. A total of 456 people have died of dengue in the Philippines in the first half of this year, which was a 39% increase ...
Beni, Congo -- The Congolese health ministry confirmed an Ebola case in Goma late Sunday, marking the first time the virus has reached the city of more than 2 m...
Parts of Africa are grappling with an outbreak of measles and the preventable disease is making a comeback because many people here aren't getting vaccinated. T...
In an update on the diphtheria outbreak in Venezuela, the outbreak that began three years ago is ongoing. According to data from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) (computer translated), Venezuela has reported 324 diphtheria cases since the ...
After 170 deaths from Acute Encephalitis Syndrome in just two months in Bihar, Assam is now on alert for a Japanese Encephalitis outbreak. At least 57 people ha...
An outbreak of dengue fever has been ongoing in Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) since January 2019, with the upscale urban districts of Abidjan city being the most ...
Queensland Health says the child visited Just Pharmacy at Murrumba Downs Shopping Centre in Brisbane’s north late on July 2 and Taigum Square Shopping Centre on the morning of July 5....
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As many as 1,504 people have died after being infected by the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo since the outbreak began in August. There have bee...
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