Officials with the Houston Health Department confirmed seven mumps cases at an U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Houston. All seven individuals are adult detainees who were detained...

On Jan. 28, the Fiji Ministry of Health and Medical Services declared a leptospirosis outbreak for the Central Division. In an update on the outbreak, Fiji media now reports 98 cases since the beginning...

On Thursday, a basketball game at Bankers Life Fieldhouse between the Indiana Pacers and the Los Angeles Clippers was interrupted by a bat flying around the arena. This prompted Indiana state health...

Officials in Dublin, Ireland have warned about a number of cases of mumps in the Dublin area recently, including some of the schools. Dr. David McGrath, Director of College Health Service at Trinity...

An increase in infection with the tapeworm, Echinococcus, has been reported among cadets at the Suvorov Guards Military Academy in Ulyanovsk in western Russia, according to local media (computer translated). The...

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Department of Pediatrics Chair and Pediatric Oncologist, Dr. Andrew Kung was on C-SPAN Saturday morning to discuss pediatric cancer and President Trump’s call...

In a follow-up on the chikungunya situation in Selangor state, Malaysia, health ministry officials report for the period January 29 to February 7, 2019, as many as 23 cases have been confirmed as being...

The measles outbreak in the Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn increased by three cases in the past week, bringing the total to 67 confirmed cases since October. Sixty-five of the 67 cases were reported...

In a follow-up on the hepatitis A outbreak in Florida that started last year, state health officials reported 189 hepatitis A cases in 26 counties in January 2019. This past month, 56 (29%) cases were...

Health officials in Newfoundland and Labrador are reporting an increase in syphilis cases, prompting call to the public of the importance of safer sex practices, including the regular use of condoms...