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  Five additional cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), including two deaths, were reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) by Jordan. According to the WHO, the patients comprise...

In the previous post about sexually transmitted infections (STI), we looked at the more well know and common infections. In this second part, we will look at those infections less well known and in some...

After several years of being diphtheria-free, the dangerous toxigenic disease has returned to the Kerala State city of Malappuram, which has taken the life of at least one child. The Times of India reported...

The dengue fever outbreak in Taiwan has grown by an additional 443 indigenous cases on Sunday, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), bringing the total tally to 13,209. The second meeting...

Dozens of workers at the Taveras dam in Santiago province, Dominican Republic have contracted the serious fungal disease, histoplasmosis, in which three people have lost their lives. The workers were...

A case of Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease was confirmed in a 12-year-old cow, which died on a farm in Adlešiči, in southeastern Slovenia, according to the World Organisation...

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A suspected outbreak of the bacterial gastrointestinal disease, cholera,has killed at least six people in the Abu Ghraib area near Baghdad, according to an i24news.tv report. It is suspected that the...

The dengue fever outbreak in New Delhi has grown to approximately 2,000 cases as national and city governments attempt to tackle the most cases seen in the city in years. The death toll as of this weekend...

Sexually transmitted infections (STI), once called sexually transmitted diseases (STD) and venereal diseases (VD) have seen there highs and lows in the United States during the past couple decades. Some...

This month, some 4,000 Medical Technology students took and passed the rigorous Medical Technologist Licensure Examinations, composed of students of the discipline from universities from all over the...