By NewsDesk   @bactiman63 A ten-year-old child from Malappuram district in Kerala state in southwestern India has died from primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) caused by infection with the parasite,...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 Karachi, Pakistan health officials are reporting 2,982 typhoid cases in the city through May 14, according to a Pakistan Today report. Of this total, 1765 are typhoid/paratyphoid...

Pakistani news media are reporting an additional case of Naegleria fowleri infection in Karachi. A 34-year old man was infected with the lethal parasite and is struggling for life at a private hospital...

Pakistan reported four additional wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases in the past week. The cases were reported from Bannu district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province (2); one from North Waziristan district...

The number of cases of the bacterial infection, leptospirosis are up year-to-date in Sri Lanka, according to official data. From January 1 through April 30, the Epidemiology Unit of the Ministry of Health...

Three additional wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases were reported in Pakistan during the last week, according to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. Cases were confirmed in Lahore district in Punjab...

Officials with the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) reported three additional wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases from Afghanistan and Pakistan, bringing the total for 2019 to date to 15. In...

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka health officials report that there has been 15641 dengue fever cases reported in the first quarter of 2019. This is down from nearly 18000 cases reported during the same period lats...

New cases There was a number of wild poliovirus and circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus cases reported this past week, according to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI). In Afghanistan, three...

Sri Lanka health officials have reported nearly 14,000 dengue through Apr. 18. The health districts accounting for the most of the 13,975 cases to date include Colombo (3126), Gampaha (1748) and Jaffna...