More than 100 students at St Nicholas Junior School in Dereham were either absent or sent home suffering from a gastrointestinal infection Thursday, according to a EDP24 report Friday. The exact etiology...

Just days after the Brazil Ministry of Health reported their first locally acquired chikungunya cases in the northern region of Amapa, authorities in the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia confirmed...

The Florida Department of Health in Broward County (DOH-Broward) Friday issued a mosquito-borne illness advisory after confirming a locally acquired case of Chikungunya Fever, a disease spread by bites...

In a follow-up to the death of Georgetown University nursing student, Andrea Jaime, the university has announced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported the cause was meningococcal...

The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH) confirmed 11 new cases of West Nile virus this week, of which seven were neuroinvasive disease infections, bringing this year’s total to 103...

The virus that has likely sickened 1000s of children in the United States has now been laboratory confirmed in nearly half of the country, according to the latest information from the Centers for Disease...

In an fascinating rebuttal of a column by CIDRAP director, Michael Osterholm, PhD, one virology professor writes, “The likelihood that Ebola virus will go airborne is so remote that we should not...

The Centre for Health Protection (CHP) of the Department of Health is today (September 19) investigating a case of necrotising fasciitis (NF) affecting a man aged 56. The patient, with good past health,...

Approximately three weeks after the first autochthonous dengue fever case was reported in Japan since World War II, the case count has since spread nationwide, with the number of patients reaching 133...

On Thursday, the Saudi Arabia Ministry of Health (MOH) reported an additional 19 historical (old) cases of MERS-CoV, as part of an ongoing review of patient data. This follows the update from June where...