The number of Zika virus infections in the southern Vietnam city of Ho Chi Minh City (HCM City)have tripled in recent weeks, according to the Vietnam Health Ministry’s Department of Preventive Medicine...

In a follow-up on a report two weeks ago concerning a potential Zika-related microcephaly case in a four-month old child Krong Buk district, Dak Lak province, Vietnam health officials say the link was...

Hong Kong health officials released updates recently on the situations on Legionnaires’ disease (LD) and dengue fever (DF). According to the Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection (CHP) of the...

With the announcement of two additional autochthonous, or locally acquired Zika virus cases Friday in the Philippines, the Department of Health now puts the case tally at 19 this year. Health Undersecretary...

Philippines health officials have reported twelve locally acquired Zika virus infections this year, with the bulk of the cases reported in Iloilo City to date. Joining the Department of Health in the battle...

The Myanmar Ministry of Health and Sports said Thursday they have identified a Zika virus case in a pregnant foreigner woman in Yangon, state media reports. Authorities confirmed the infection in the...

In what is clearly one of the most bizarre and potentially tragic stories today, Coconuts Bangkok reports that 13 teenagers in Thailand’s Northeast province of Mukdahan dug up a dog that was buried...

Just days after Vietnam health officials raised the epidemic alert level after reported a potential Zika-related microcephaly case in a four-month old child Krong Buk district, Dak Lak province, the...

A man from Shenzhen province, China has died from an infection with the “brain-eating amoeba”, Naegleria fowleri in early September, according to a Chinese media account. According to the...

A team of investigators from the Philippines Department of Health (DOH) will arrive today in Bacolod City to attempt to determine what sickened some 145 students in the village of Barangay Handumanan,...