The acute viral illness, Lassa fever, is no stranger to the west African country of Nigeria where the disease is endemic. In fact, during the previous two years, Nigeria has recorded more than 2,200 cases...

Sweden has reported their first case of measles that is linked to the large European outbreak, which includes an outbreak in Germany, according to Swedish media. The report states the patient, who was...

Birds are more important than previously recognized as hosts for Lyme disease-causing bacteria in California, according to a new study led by UC Berkeley researchers. The findings, published Wednesday,...

Remember Nina Pham? She was the first person in the United States to contract Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in the country while treating Liberian patient, Thomas Eric Duncan while employed at Texas Health Presbyterian...

The chikungunya epidemic in the Western hemisphere has increased by 3,000 cases during the past week with the new tally at 1,247,000 since the first autochthonous cases were reported on the Caribbean island...

Lady York Foods is recalling sliced Mortadella products from the marketplace due to possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination. Consumers should not consume the recalled products described here: Sliced...

Just days after reporting an Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) outbreak on the  male ward for severe intellectual disability at the Siu Lam Hospital (SLH) in Hong Kong, hospital officials are now reporting...