A group of experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) will arrive in Havana on  Sunday, Mar. 22 to analyze the possible validation of Cuba as the first country in the world to eliminate syphilis...

“Two cases of Chikungunya have been confirmed in St. Martin following testing at the specialist laboratory in Marseille that returned positive results to Agence Régional de Santé (ARS) on December...

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Brazil is experiencing an increase in locally transmitted malaria in the state of Rio de Janeiro, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Brazil reports approximately 6 cases...

With an increase of more than 20,000 chikungunya cases during the past week, the South American country of Colombia has surpassed 200,000 suspected and confirmed cases since the first autochthonous case...

There were reports Friday from Honduras media (computer translated) of a suspected case of Ebola in Honduras, where an American patient has reportedly been isolated in a hospital in Comayagua exhibiting...

In 2014, there were more than 1.5 million suspected and confirmed dengue fever cases in the Western hemisphere, including nearly 700 deaths. During the first two months of 2015, the dengue case tally has...

The El Salvador Health Ministry is reporting a significant increase in confirmed cases of rotavirus in 2015, compared to the same period last year, according to an elsalvador.com report (computer translated). In...

The National Director of Medicines in El Salvador is warning the public of a bacterial risk associated with the “miracle cure” product, DAVIDA, according to a La Prensa Gráfica report (computer...

The northwestern Ecuadorian city of Esmeraldas has declared a state of emergency due to the spread of chikungunya, according to a Globedia report (computer translated). Esmeraldas mayor, Lenin Lara,...

An increase in cases of a new clinical form of the Latin American fungal disease, paracoccidioidomycosis, has triggered a “state of alert” in northeastern Argentina, according to a Primera...