By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Myanmar Ministry of Health and Sports are reporting more than 10,000 dengue fever cases during the first seven months of 2019. From the beginning of the year...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Singapore health officials apparently issued a memo for physicians recently due to an increase in locally acquired typhoid fever. According to the memo, posted on...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Philippines health officials are reporting that the National Capital Region (NCR), or the Metro Manila area has exceeded the alert threshold for dengue fever recently,...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews A teenage girl from Pangasinan province in the northern Philippines has died from the mosquito-borne disease, Japanese encephalitis (JE), the first such fatality in...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Syphilis has become a big public health issue in recent years, with 2018 seeing more than 6,000 cases, the highest number since 1970. To date in 2019, the Japan National...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Thailand health officials reported an additional 4,500 dengue fever cases during the past week, which has brought the total case tally to 49,174 cases with 64 deaths,...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Officials in the Western Visayas region of the Philippines are calling the dengue fever situation in the region and the country “alarming” as the case...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Myanmar is now the 7th Asian country to report confirmed African swine fever (ASF) cases. Chief Veterinary Officer Director General, Livestock Breeding and Veterinary...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews One week after the Philippines Health Secretary, Francisco Duque III declared a national dengue epidemic in the country when the tally was 146,062 cases, health officials...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Taiwan health officials are reporting the first case of local dengue fever in New Taipei City this year. The patient is a 40-year-old man in Xiujingli, Zhonghe District...