The Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) has revealed that two of their talents have contracted dengue fever. 25-year-old Aoki Eri and 20-year-old Saaya reportedly contracted the mosquito borne virus appearing...

A ninth fatal case of the “brain-eating amoeba”, Naegleria fowleri, has been reported in the Karachi area of Pakistan, according to a News Tribe report today. The victim is a 32-year-old man,...

After a period of some 70 years, local transmission of dengue fever has returned to Japan. In a follow-up to a report yesterday, Japanese health officials are reporting an additional 12 indigenous cases...

The Idaho Department of Agriculture (IDSA) has halted the sales of raw goat milk from a Parma dairy after detecting the protozoan parasite, Cryptosporidium, according to a Idaho Statesman report Saturday. Agriculture...

A 55-year-old woman from Murska Sobota, Slovenia is the first proven human case of the parasitic disease, babesiosis, in the country, according to a Slovenia Press Agency report Friday. Babesiosis is...

The transcontinental country of Azerbaijan is reporting 12 cases of bacillary dysentery due to the bacterium, Shigella, according to an Azer News report today. At least  four cases of dysentery were...

Health officials in Australia’s Northern Territory are reporting an outbreak of a fungal infection that hasn’t been seen before. The fungal infection is Sporotrichosis and at least 10 people...

“Det var inte Ebola”, or “It was not Ebola” was the headline in today’s Svenska Dagbladet (computer translated). In a follow-up to several reports yesterday concerning a...

The measles outbreak that started in early July in in Honiara, Solomon Islands, has grown to at least 550 cases, the Solomon Islands Health Ministry said recently. In a Radio New Zealand report today,...

Less than a week since Japan reported their first locally acquired dengue fever case since 1945, the health ministry is now reporting that the case count is now up to 22, according to an AFP report today. Nineteen...