The Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection (CHP) reports investigating a cluster of invasive Burkholderia cepacia infection affecting nine persons who had a history of injecting drugs. The affected...

The Vietnam Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in coordination with Lao Cai People’s Committee and international organizations co-organized the conference “Rabies...

The Yala Provincial Public Health Office in southern Thailand are reporting a measles outbreak that has affected hundreds. According to the National News Bureau of Thailand, 341 people have been infected...

The Philippines’ highly politicized response to newly-reported risks of a dengue vaccine led to a dramatic drop in public trust in vaccines overall, according to new research published in Human...

The Ministry of Health Malaysia (MOH) reported on an update of the food poisoning outbreak suspected linked to laksa that shows 19 new cases, bringing the total to 80, including two deaths. The breakdown...

The Japanese National Institute of Infectious Diseases reported for the second year in a row more than 5,000 syphilis cases in the country. With 88 cases reported the last week of September, health officials...

Japanese health officials reported an additional 134 rubella cases the last week of September, bringing the total cases this year to 952 according to data reported by the National Institute of Infectious...

Vietnam, along with Palau and Wallis and Futuna eliminated lymphatic filariasis as a public health problem, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) Western Pacific Region Monday. WHO Director-General...

Officials with the World Health Organization Western Pacific Region (WHOWPRO) announced Monday that Malaysia became the first country in the region to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV and...

The number of dengue related fatalities reported in Thailand has reached 80, according to the Bureau of Epidemiology. For the first nine months of 2018, Thai health officials have reported 61,917 dengue...