The condition of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) physician who contracted Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) while treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone, Dr. Craig Spencer, is unchanged...

The Hawaii State Department of Health (DOH) has confirmed four additional cases of measles on Maui and Kauai, bringing the total number of confirmed measles cases in these two separate clusters in Hawaii...

An anthrax outbreak that has been responsible for the deaths of at least seven people has caused health officials to quarantine a village, according to a BioPrep Watch report Thursday. A team from the...

Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) identified a case of acute hepatitis A virus infection in a Cumberland County food service worker, according to an advisory issued Oct. 30. The...

Rolling Acres Cider Mill is recalling unpasteurized apple cider from the marketplace due to possible E.coli O157:H7 contamination. Consumers should not consume the recalled products: Rolling Acres Pure...

The following was published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Thursday to assist health practitioners when making the decision to discharge a suspected Ebola patient: The decision...

A national immunization day polio vaccination campaign was inaugurated this week in Afghanistan by the country’s Vice President, Mr Mohammad Sarwar Danish, in a ceremony attended by Ministry of Public...

Just to keep things in perspective in the United States, the mosquito borne virus that originated in Africa, West Nile virus (WNV) has killed 1,668 people from its first appearance in  the states in 1999...

At Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan, the 5-year-old child who was admitted and tested negative for Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), is being discharged today, according to hospital officials.  Lab results confirmed...

New South Wales (NSW) Health has urged people not to approach injured bats and flying foxes following three confirmed cases of the potentially fatal lyssavirus in NSW bats this year. Over the past month,...