A dengue outbreak has hit the city of Nuevo Laredo in the State of Tamaulipas, across the Rio Grande from the US city of Laredo, Texas, according to a RSOE EDIS report today. It is reported that at...

Medicines to treat one million people – or nearly one in 10 Haitians – have arrived at Direct Relief’s warehouse in Port-au-Prince as the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus continues to spread throughout...

The number of chikungunya cases in Jamaica has grown by three, the Ministry of Health said Thursday. According to a Jamaica Observer report, there is now a total of 24 cases of the mosquito borne virus...

While much attention has been given to the chikungunya outbreak in the Western hemisphere, and for good reason, another mosquito borne virus has infected and killed more people in the Americas so far in...

The Jamaica Ministry of Health announced the confirmation of four new locally acquired chikungunya cases on the island, bring the total cases, imported and autochthonous, to 21, according to a Jamaica...

The number of chikungunya cases reported in the Western hemisphere increased by some 70,000 cases from last week, according to data released  by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) today. The...

The Puerto Rico Department of Health (Departamento de Salud de Puerto Rico) reported Wednesday (computer translated) that in epidemiological week 31, they reported 285, 284 suspected and 1 confirmed,...

The number of chikungunya cases in the Dominican Republic now stands at 429,000 as of Aug. 15, making it by far the country with the most people infected in the Western hemisphere, according to a Diario...

A resident of the capital district of Rio Abajo, Panama is the second autochthonous, or locally acquired chikungunya case reported in the Central American country, according to a Prensa Latina report...

Just about a month after it was reported that a nine-year-old Costa Rican boy died from rabies after getting bit by a squirrel, the Ministry of Health confirmed yesterday that an 11-year-old Nicaraguan...