An increase this year in the number of cases of flea-borne typhus across multiple areas of the state is prompting the Texas Department of State Health Services to remind people to take precautions to...

For the first time since May, San Luis Obispo County (SLO) health officials have reported a death due to the fungal infection, Valley Fever, or coccidioidomycosis, making it the sixth of the year. According...

For the first time in several months, Chinese health authorities are reporting a human case of avian influenza A(H7N9). This is from Yunnan province. The 64-year-old male patient from Kunming, who was...

Officials in La Libertad, Peru are carrying out a fumigation campaign in the District Municipality of Chocope, Ascope province after the presence of the agent of plague, Yersinia pestis, was confirmed...

During the past decade, 2016 saw the most Vibrio vulnificus cases in Florida topping out at 46. That record didn’t last long as state health officials have reported 48 cases in 2017 to date. Counties...

We first reported on giant African snails (Lissachatina fulica) in Cuba in 2014 in the Havana municipality of Arroyo Naranjo, which was unknown to the island before that. A more recent article published...

Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Montserrat and Saint Kitts and Nevis were today certified by the World Health Organization (WHO) as having eliminated mother-to-child transmission...

Washington state health officials are reporting a Salmonella outbreak that sickened 18 people in several counties and in Oregon. Eighteen people from King (5), Mason (1), Pierce (1), Snohomish (7), Thurston...

Detroit health officials are investigating two cases of hepatitis A in employees of a McDonald’s and the Greektown Casino. On Tuesday, health officials announced investigating a Hepatitis A case...

Millions of children in the poorest countries could soon be protected against typhoid fever following the Gavi Board’s approval today of a support window for typhoid conjugate vaccines (TCVs). “Typhoid...