With the number of dengue fever cases in Baguio City up significantly during the first half of 2016, OIC City Health Officer Dr. Sorayda Clavio said public-private partnership must be strengthened in...

A 10-year-old boy from Altai Republic in Siberia has contracted bubonic plague, according to TASS News Agency. It is believed he caught the serious bacterial infection during a hiking trip. The region...

Binh Phuoc Province health officials said seven people have contracted the vaccine preventable disease, diphtheria, in recent weeks, of which three patients under the age of 24 died, according to local...

Through July 12, Malaysian health officials have reported 60,085 dengue fever cases in 2016, after an additional 344 cases were reported yesterday. In addition, 134 dengue related fatalities have been...

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The Chinese National Health and Family Planning Commission and Health and Family Planning Commission of Guangdong Province reported on an additional imported case of Zika Virus infection today. The patient...

The number of people infected with the parasitic disease, trichinosis, has grown to 20 people in the Irkutsk region of Siberia, Russia, according to a Sib.fm report (computer translated). The public...

Tracing the movements of patients at a South Korean hospital has helped identify how Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus was transmitted from a single super-spreader patient in an overcrowded...

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On June 28, 2016, the Hong Kong Centre for Health Proyection (CHP) recorded a case of Streptococcus suis infection affecting a 55-year-old man with good past health. He presented with headache, cough...

Thailand is home to some 400 species of mosquito to include the Anopheles mosquito, Mansonia sp, Culex tritaeniorhynchus and Aedes aegypti and A. albopictus, which are responsible for transmitting...

The Thailand Ministry of Health is advising the public, particularly those that work around young children, about handwashing and personal hygiene in light of increased numbers of the contagious viral...