In an update from a June 17 report, Myanmar health officials say the dengue fever situation in the country has increased particularly since the onset of the rainy season. The most current case count now...

The number of cyclospora cases in Texas grew by another ten cases, bringing the state total to 80 as of June 29. This includes 68 cases reported during the past two weeks. Cyclosporiasis is an intestinal...

Common causes of gastrointestinal disease, both bacterial and parasitic, are headed in different directions according to numbers from Florida health officials. The number of cases of giardiasis, caused...

The number of leprosy, or Hansen’s Disease cases in Florida during the first half of 2015 is nearly what the Sunshine state saw in all of last year as Flagler County reported the latest case on Friday....

European health officials are reporting the first human West Nile virus case in a patient from Sofia, Bulgaria. The transmission season in Europe is from June to November. The European Centre for Disease...

Canadian health officials report investigating an outbreak of Salmonella infections in Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland and Labrador with cases of human illness linked to frozen raw breaded...

A new Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) on Outbreaks of Illness Associated with Recreational Water — United States, 2011–2012 brought a lot of attention to the issue of cryptosporidiosis,...

In an update to a report at the beginning of June, Spanish National Radio reports (computer translated) the 6-year-old boy from Olot with diphtheria admitted to the Hospital Vall d’Hebron in Barcelona...

GRAND BK CORP. of MASPETH, NEW YORK is recalling 450 CASES OF GOODIES CASHEW RAW 9OZ, because it has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes...

An outbreak of the parasitic infection, Chagas disease, has sickened a dozen people of the same family in the La Macarena municipality Febres Cordero, Merida state, in the Andean region of Venezuela,...