Officials with the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) in Karachi, Pakistan is reporting the death of a 21-year old student from the Orangi Town area due to the “brain-eating amoeba”,...

Yemen Yemeni health officials reported an additional 27,840 suspected cases of cholera with 48 associated deaths during the week ending April 14. Eighteen percent of these are considered severe cases. The...

The Minister of Health of Iraq Dr Alaa Alwan launched a 5-day polio vaccination campaign in Baghdad on 7 April 2019. “This is an important event for the health sector in Iraq. Poliomyelitis is one of...

Since first reported in Saudi Arabia in 2012, 2,400-plus Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) cases reported in 27 countries, including more than 800 fatalities. Since the beginning...

The World Health Organization’s regional office for the Eastern Mediterranean (WHO EMRO) reported  a total of 76 laboratory-confirmed cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) in the month...

The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) published some data on the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) surge in the Middle East and a summary on human H9N2 cases...

The Oman Ministry of Health has reported the 6th Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection of the year, according to a MOH Twitter post today. MOH officials say the patient has...

The spike in Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infections in Saudi Arabia continues with the kingdom’s health ministry reporting seven additional cases yesterday, bringing...

In a follow-up on the measles outbreak in Israel, the Ministry of Health reported recently on the 2018 outbreak. According to health officials, from March through the end of December 2018, as a result...

The Saudi Arabia Ministry of Health reported an additional four Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection today bringing the total to 20 cases in 2019. The most recent cases are...