El Salvador is one of the 22 countries and territories in the Americas to report local transmission of Zika virus, in fact, the Central American country has seen a surge in cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) added the following destinations to the Zika virus travel alerts: United States Virgin Islands and Dominican Republic.  Previously, CDC issued a travel...

In a follow-up to a report earlier this month, Puerto Rico health officials say that 19 locally acquired Zika virus infections have been confirmed, primarily in the south east, according to a El Vocero...

Brazil is pulling out the big guns in the battle against the Aedes mosquito and the viruses it may transmit, including dengue, chikungunya, yellow fever and Zika. Brazil’s health minister, Marcelo Castro...

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The World Health Organization (WHO)/ Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) believe that the Zika virus will continue it’s spread throughout the countries and territories of the Americas (the one’s...

Health officials in Costa Rica are reporting an outbreak of hepatitis A in the canton, or municipality of Aserri in San Jose province, according to Costa Rican Times report yesterday. The report notes...

Is Argentina in the middle of a dengue fever epidemic today? I guess that depends on who you listen to. On Friday, Health Minister Jorge Lemus said, “We already have an epidemic of Dengue fever,”...

Since the Zika virus outbreak hit Colombia in Oct. 2015, more than 16,000 laboratory and clinically confirmed and suspected cases have been reported by health officials. In the first weeks of 2016, more...

A 42-year-old woman from St. Croix has tested positive for the Zika virus, according to an Associated Press report. Health authorities in the US Virgin Islands say the woman has no recent travel history...

Officials with the Dominican Republic Ministry of Public Health (MPH) are reporting a dozen Zika virus infection cases, 7 are considered locally acquired while five are travel-associated, according to...