Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi, announced Wednesday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved use of Quadracel™ (Diphtheria and Tetanus Toxoids and Acellular Pertussis...

San Diego County health officials say a rabid bat was found at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park and are interested to know if anyone who was in the park directly handled the rabid bat. The County of San...

The Obama administration released their 62-page plan the curb antibiotic resistance titled, National Strategy on Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria, and the detailed plan received mixed reviews...

One year after Australia, Macao (China), Mongolia and the Republic of Korea were declared measles-free, the World Health Organization (WHO) Western Pacific Region added Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia...

State health officials reported today a total of 81 HIV positive tests, which includes 74 confirmed and 7 preliminary cases related to the outbreak in southeastern Indiana. Oral fluid HIV tests (swab in...

The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has confirmed the presence of highly pathogenic H5N2 avian influenza (HPAI) in a commercial turkey...

Just a week after reports were released concerning an increase of locally-transmitted vivax malaria in Rio de Janeiro State, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced today that 5...

The number of dengue fever cases in Brazil has nearly five-fold since this time in February, according to newly released data from the Pan American Health Organization today. The UN agency put the dengue...

The Taiwan Centers for Disease Control (Taiwan CDC) is advising the public to take precautions against scrub typhus when visiting chigger-infested areas such as bush areas with the upcoming Qingming...

The AIDS virus can genetically evolve and independently replicate in patients’ brains early in the illness process, researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health have discovered. An analysis...