The number of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) cases in Sierra Leone has jumped to 50 cases, up from 16 reported just two days ago, according to a World Health Organization (WHO) update today. 34 new cases...

In a follow-up to the news that the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) has spread to the west African country of Sierra Leone shows the number of cases have grown since the weekend. According to the World Health...

The cholera outbreak that was declared by the South Sudan Ministry of Health in collaboration with the World Health Organization three weeks ago in Juba, has blossomed to hundreds of cases and two dozen...

At least 10 fisherman were sickened with suspected anthrax after consuming hippopotamus meat in central Kenya, according to a Daily Nation report today. Apparently, the fishermen found the hippo’s...

Just two days after the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that the west African country was “stable with no new cases being reported”, the lethal virus has now been confirmed in the...

The Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) has reared it’s head in a previously unaffected district in the western African Country of Guinea, according to the latest update from the World Health Organization...

An anthrax case and death in an African Elephant (Loxodonta africana) has been reported in Kazima Forest, Chobe National Park, Chobe, Botswana, according to a World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) report...

During a ceremony held at the Carter Center’s headquarters on May 15, 2014, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Lions Clubs International Foundation Chairperson Wayne Madden announced a US $8.8 million...

WHO Regional Office for Africa Press Release Mozambique The Ministry of Health of Mozambique informed WHO of an outbreak of dengue fever on 21 April 2014. As of 8 May 2014, the total number of cases was...

After first being reported in the Tanzanian capital in January, government officials now say the dengue fever outbreak in Dar es Salaam has sickened 400 people and is being attributed to the deaths of...