NewsDesk @bactiman63 My guest today writes, “In many places around the world, malaria is closely linked to illegal gold mining” in a recent article in the BMC blog, BugBitten titled, “A story of...

Food For The Poor is ramping up its response to COVID-19 (coronavirus) in the countries it serves, based on urgent requests from its offices and partners. The charity has sent 26 shipments of supplies...

In a follow-up on the leptospirosis outbreak among Guyana Manganese Inc. (GMI) workers, local media report a second Chinese worker has died after falling sick. Both fatalities were found to have died...

Health officials in Guyana have reported a leptospirosis outbreak among Guyana Manganese Inc. (GMI) workers Friday. According to authorities, two Chinese nationals have been treated and released, while...

Through the first week in November 2018, a total of 446,150 cases of dengue were reported (incidence of 45.9 cases per 100,000 population), including 240 deaths, according to UN officials. 171,123 were...

Venezuela has not seen a case of the vaccine preventable disease, diphtheria, in some 24 years until 2016. Media accounts have put the number of diphtheria cases in Bolivar state, near the borders of Brazil...

Since the first Zika virus infection was confirmed on the Caribbean island of Martinique in Dec. 2105, health authorities put the clinical case count at 10,950, with the addition of some 1700 cases reported...

On Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated a number of travel notices for Zika virus-affected countries. Many of which are very popular vacation destinations. These include...

United Nations health officials have added three countries to the list of countries and territories with autochthonous transmission of Zika virus infection with that list now standing at 17 in the Americas. Last...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a travel notice Friday for El Salvador due to the chikungunya situation in the Central American country. The CDC reports as of July 12, 2014,...