The measles outbreak in the Philippines continues to rise at breakneck speed. Health officials on Saturday released some updated data which show the 2019 outbreak is some 250 percent higher than last year...

Officials with the Taiwan Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is advising (computer translated) the public to ensure they are vaccinated if traveling to Japan due to outbreaks of measles and German measles...

In a follow-up on the measles outbreak in the Philippines, the country’s National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) reported a dramatic increase in measles cases and deaths...

Officials with the Yangon Region Public Health Department have reported an increase in measles cases since the beginning of the year, according to a Myanmar media report. Through Feb. 4,  248 laboratory-confirmed...

For the first time since Feb. 2006, the archipelago of some 17,000 islands, Indonesia reported a polio case. This week, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) said a new circulating vaccine-derived...

Hong Kong health officials reported a record high number of dengue fever cases in 2018.  The Centre for Health Protection (CHP) recorded 163 cases, higher that 30 to 124 cases per year from 2008 to...

The Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection (CHP) reported three confirmed measles cases in January in people who had travelled to the Philippines during the incubation period. The patients include Filipino...

Representatives from the  Philippine Society for Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, the Philippine Pediatric Society and the Pediatric Infectious Disease Society of the Philippines reached out to...

The Philippines Department of Health in the Eastern Visayas are reporting a 2-times increase in dengue fever cases during the first five weeks of 2019 compared to last year. According to the data, the...

The Philippines Department of Health (DOH) has joined forces with multiple government agencies to tackle the ongoing measles outbreak in several regions of the country. “The Department of Health is...