By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 Officials with the Pangasinan Provincial Health Office in the western area of the island of Luzon are reporting an increase in acute gastroenteritis cases during the first five...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 Rumors and false stories of monkeypox in Malaysia prompted the Director General of Health Malaysia, Datuk Dr. Noor Hisham Bin Abdullah to release a statement about the fake news. The...

Three patients (aged 55 to 62) in a female psychiatric ward at Kwai Chung Hospital in Hong Kong have presented with respiratory symptoms since May 10, according to the Hospital Authority. Appropriate...

Hong Kong health officials announced Friday that the measles outbreak at Hong Kong International Airport is now over. A Centre for Health Protection (CHP) spokesman said, “A total of 73 cases of...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 The Taiwan Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has reported (computer translated) the first case of Japanese encephalitis of 2019 in a 60-year-old man from Kaohsiung City. On May...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 Philippines officials are reported an outbreak of suspected food poisoning in Bukidnon province in the  Northern Mindanao region. It is reported that 233 delegates of the 8th...

The Bureau of Epidemiology with the Thailand Health Ministry are reporting (computer translated) 3379 chikungunya cases in 23 provinces through May 13. Phuket, Songkla and Ranong have been the most affected...

Officials with the National Environment Agency (NEA) in Singapore are reporting that the number of weekly reported dengue cases have been on an upward trend and more than doubled in the past seven weeks. Through...

In a follow-up on the measles outbreak in Japan,  the National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID) in Tokyo reports 467 cases through May 9. This is the highest number of measles cases recorded...

Hong Kong health officials report investigating three cases of human infection of rat Hepatitis E virus (HEV). Two of the cases, men aged 81 and 67, are stable and did not require hospitalization. A third...