The Rickettsial infection, scrub typhus, a disease primarily found in Asia, has been reported for the first time in Ancud, a city on Chiloé Island, in Chile’s Lake District. In January 2015 and...

Officials with the city of Jacareí in São Paulo State, Brazil have tested some 2,200 children for the bacterial eye infection, trachoma, which resulted in 146 positive kids, according to a Nossa Jacareí...

Dengue, chikungunya and Zika viruses are all transmitted by the Aedes mosquito, which is present in much of the Western hemisphere. So it should come as no surprise that these three viral diseases are...

Officials with the Mexico Ministry of Health (MOH) have reported 8,314  dengue fever and severe dengue cases through the first week of September of this year, a decrease in cases of more than 33 percent...

The number of pregnant women in Puerto Rico confirmed positive fro Zika virus increased by 133 cases in the past week, bringing the total to 1,517, according to Secretary of Health, Ana Ríus Armendariz...

In 2015, Venezuela saw a record number of malaria cases with 136,402, the most reported in 75 years, since reliable records have been kept in the country. However, the situation is much worse in the South...

CDC Director Tom Frieden, MD, MPH, and Martha Lucía Ospina Martínez, MD, MPH, MBA, Director General of Colombia’s Instituto Nacional de Salud (INS), have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)...

The Ministry of Health and Social Development confirmed five cases of the Zika virus in the British Virgin Islands last week. Three of the cases were tested locally and found to be positive and two cases...

Officials with the Province of Buenos Aires Ministry of Health are warning the public not to consume homemade or raw sausage, particularly product without a manufacturer’s label due to an increase...

A little over a week after the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) reported on the first locally transmitted Zika virus infection in the Bahamas, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)...