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,...

The country on the northern coast of South America has become the second country on the continent to record locally transmitted cases of the mosquito borne virus, chikungunya, according to aa Associated...