Congo Since mid-March, the Congo Ministry of Health reported a suspected cholera outbreak in Likouala Department, located in the northern part of the country. In a related event, health authorities...

The measles outbreak in Okinawa, that was triggered by an imported case from Taiwan in late-March, has grown to 71 cases, according to an update from the Okinawa Prefectural Government today. More than...

In a follow-up on the wound botulism situation linked to injecting black tar heroin in San Diego County, health officials are reporting three additional cases, bringing the total to six in the past month. According...

Health officials in England are reporting an increase in measles cases in 2018, according to a Croyden Advertiser report. So far this year there have been 250 cases of measles reported (with at least...

In a follow-up on the first global report of HLAziR N. gonorrhoeae which is also resistant to ceftriaxone in a United Kingdom man, Public Health England (PHE) reports investigating a UK case of Neisseria...

Measles In the latest update from the Hellenic Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (KEELPNO) this week, officials now report since the beginning of 2017, 2591 measles cases, including three deaths. The...

At the request of the Ministry of Health (MOH), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has delivered a new batch of measles, mumps and rubella vaccines. Ministry officials report receiving...

Officials with the Okinawa Prefectural Government reported Thursday that there are a total of 65 people who contracted the measles since the outbreak started on March 20, 2018. This has prompted...

The Kanawha-Charleston Health Department reports recent cases of acute hepatitis A occurring in Kanawha and Putnam counties have been linked to an ongoing, multistate Hepatitis A outbreak. Since January,...

A Rice University study predicts that this fall’s flu vaccine — a new H3N2 formulation for the first time since 2015 — will likely have the same reduced efficacy against the dominant...