By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 Philippines health officials reported today the detection of 52 additional B.1.351 variant (South Africa variant) cases, 31 additional B.1.1.7 variant (UK variant) cases, and...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 The World Health Organization (WHO) is reporting three new cases of human infection with avian influenza A(H9N2) virus in China. The first case is a one-year-old female from...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 The Taiwan CDC is reporting the number of visits to hospitals for diarrhea has recently increased, and the pathogens detected in cluster incidents are mainly norovirus, and most...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 While it is early in 2021, the two countries reporting the most dengue fever to date in southeast Asia are Vietnam and the Philippines. In Vietnam, a total of 11,659 cases of...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 In a follow-up on the report of seven human avian influenza A (H5N8) cases in Russia, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a release on the first reported detection...

Earlier this week, Congressman Lee Zeldin (R, NY-1) was joined by Representatives Andrew Garbarino (R, NY-2) and Tom Suozzi (D, NY-3) in reintroducing the Vietnam Veterans Liver Fluke Cancer Study Act,...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 The twenty-seventh meeting of the Emergency Committee under the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) on the international spread of poliovirus was convened by the WHO...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 Russian officials are reporting human infections with the A(H5N8) bird flu virus, according to a Russian News Agency TASS news report. The virus infected workers of a poultry...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 The unintended dangers of the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting mitigations has affected suicides, economic loss and malnutrition and other health issues. Earlier this month,...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 Vietnam has fared very well during this COVID-19 pandemic as the Department of Preventive Medicine with the Ministry of Health says the country ranks 172th in the world, 41st...