By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The National Institute of Health (INS) confirmed to the Department of Health of Huila, a case of death due to the rabies virus, which affected a young man who had...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Department of Health in Huila department in southern Colombia has issued a health alert due to a dengue fever outbreak, according to a La Voz de la Region report...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews In the Western hemisphere, the number of dengue cases reported through August is 2,384,029 cases and 949 deaths. The number of cases reported in 2019 as August 31...

Health officials have issued an epidemiological alert for the city of Neiva, located in south central Colombia due to a leishmaniasis outbreak, according to a La Nacion report (computer translated). The...

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We have been monitoring the yellow fever outbreak in Angola for several weeks now and today  the World Health Organization (WHO) released an update that provides some additional details about the situation. The...

Since the Zika virus outbreak hit Colombia in Oct. 2015, more than 16,000 laboratory and clinically confirmed and suspected cases have been reported by health officials. In the first weeks of 2016, more...