At least two patients are being treated for the serious bacterial infection, necrotizing fasciitis, or the “flesh eating bacteria”, at the Rochester General Hospital, according to local media...

With 25,000 cases of dengue fever reported in Malaysia during the first two months of 2015, the country appears on a trajectory to see more cases than last year’s 100,000. In addition, the Malaysia...

Just the thought of it makes you itch. Bedbugs are small, oval, brownish insects that live on the blood of animals or humans. They are flat and roughly the size of Lincoln’s head on a penny and become...

In addition to the plethora of health issues in Liberia, Ebola being at the top, another highly infectious disease is threatening young children, according to a blog post by the International Rescue Committee...

An outbreak of aggressive herpes the city of Bocoyna in northern Mexico’s, Chihuahua state has affected at least 20 young children, according to an El Heraldo report (computer translated). The...

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...

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...

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...