The Brazilian province of Minas Gerais has reported 419 mumps cases in 2017 to date and 55 percent of the cases have been reported in the southern region, according to a Globo.com report (computer translated). Southern...

In an update on the yellow fever outbreak in Brazil, the number of confirmed cases now stand at 396 since December 2016. Of this total, 134 death were reported putting the case fatality rate (CFR) at 34...

In a follow-up on the “black urine disease” outbreak, which affected some 50 people in Bahia state, Brazil from December to January, has been determined not to be due to a bacteria or virus,...

The neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at the Hospital Materno Infantil de Brasília (HMIB) in Brazil remains closed after three newborns died, according to Correio Braziliense report (computer translated). The...

In an update on the yellow fever outbreak in Brazil, the Pan american health Organization (PAHO) reports since the beginning of the outbreak in December 2016, there were 1,500 cases of yellow fever reported,...

The unusually large outbreak of yellow fever now occurring in rural Brazil deserves careful attention by world health authorities, notes Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., director of the National Institute of Allergy...

In an update to the yellow fever outbreak in Brazil, since the beginning of the outbreak in December 2016 to Feb. 18, 2017, there were 1,368 cases of yellow fever reported (326 confirmed, 125 discarded,...

Haiti has reported 1,897 cholera cases through January, according to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). 28 deaths were reported during this period. Since the cholera outbreak began in October...

Since the yellow fever outbreak started in Dec. 2016, a total of 1336 cases of yellow fever infection (292 confirmed, 920 suspected, and 124 discarded), including 215 deaths (101 confirmed, 109 suspected,...

For the first time in 2017, health officials in the province of Los Santos, Panama have confirmed a hantavirus case. According to regional director of Health, Dr. Germán Solís, the patient is a 75-year-old...