Haskell In an update on the adenovirus outbreak at the Wanaque Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation in Haskell, health officials report laboratory tests have confirmed another medically fragile child...

Singapore has eliminated measles, and Australia, Brunei Darussalam and Macao SAR (China) have eliminated rubella as public health problems, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced today. Both...

Health officials in Honduras received a certificate this week for the elimination of the vector that transmits Chagas disease, the Rhodnius prolixus bug, according to a health ministry report (computer...

Additional vaccine clinics have been set in Rockland County as the number of measles cases continue to rise. The Health Department will be holding measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine clinics on: Thursday,...

The National Health Commission in China has reported an additional human case of avian influenza A(H5N6) in Guangxi. The case involved a 44-year-old man from Hechi in Guangxi. He developed symptoms on...

The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted a Biologics License Application for Sanofi Pasteur’s dengue vaccine. The dengue vaccine candidate has been granted priority review...

The New Mexico Department of Health (NMDOH) is working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) on a multi-state cluster of Salmonella...

The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) confirms that a Wisconsin dairy herd in Dane County has tested positive for bovine tuberculosis (TB). Meat inspectors identified...

The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) received a report of measles in a Spartanburg County resident who had recently traveled outside the U.S. DHEC confirmed the case...

More than ten weeks after the declaration of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) epidemic, we seem to be facing a second peak of the outbreak, according to Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Through Oct. 29,...