With an increase of of only 573 whooping cough cases during the past two weeks in California, it appears the bacterial disease epidemic may be slowing. As of Aug. 18, the California Department of Public...

Just about a month after it was reported that a nine-year-old Costa Rican boy died from rabies after getting bit by a squirrel, the Ministry of Health confirmed yesterday that an 11-year-old Nicaraguan...

The African nation of Liberia, now considered to be the epicenter of the West Africa Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak, is the first country to reach and exceed 1,000 cases, according to a World Health...

El Paso County Public Health Department announced finding a dead wild rabbit  near a prairie dog burrow in in Yoder. Testing on the animal revealed it had contracted and died from plague. Public health...

A newly reported Vibrio vulnificus case in Charlotte County, Florida, the county’s third case, brings the states total to 16, according to the latest numbers released from the Florida Department...

Var department in southeast France recorded their first locally acquired, or indigenous dengue fever case, according to a report in The Connexion today. The patient contracted the illness despite not...

In a follow-up to a report yesterday concerning a suspected Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in an individual recently returned from Africa, Irish health authorities report today that laboratory testing shows...

An unidentified disease that has killed dozens in the Djera, Tshuapa district of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in the past month is not Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), according to a World Health...

The number of wild poliovirus-1 (WPV-1) in Pakistan grows weekly as the country accounts for 79 percent of all polio cases reported globally. Seven new WPV1 cases were reported in the past week, all from...

Hidyatullah National Law University in Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India has closed their doors until the end of the month due to an chickenpox outbreak on campus. According to the Times of India, more than...