Two Vietnamese men have been hospitalized with symptoms of the rare degenerative brain disorder known as Creutzfeldt – Jakob Disease (CJD); however, a definitive diagnosis could not be made, according...

Although more details of the medical breakthrough are to be announced Thursday in Bangkok, the National News Bureau of Thailand reports the development of the first Ebola vaccine by researchers at the...

There is at least 70 possible cases of leptospirosis under review in Guam, according to a Pacific News Center report. It appears the possible cases are linked to hikers who got lost in the Mt Schroeder...

With an increase in cases of dengue fever at 1500 percent over 2013 numbers, the Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention say the the number has topped 10,000, according to a report...

Conjunctivitis, or “pink eye” is spreading in the Vietnamese capital as eye doctors in Hanoi say they’ve seen 7,000 cases during the past two weeks, according to a Tuoi Tre News report...

UPDATE: Guangdong dengue case count now 9,161 Guangdong Province in southeastern China has seen a rise in over 2,000 dengue fever cases in recent days, bringing the outbreak total to 8,273 as of Friday,...

The number of locally acquired dengue fever cases reported in Japan is now up to 144, according to a Japan Times report Friday. The first locally transmitted case in 70 years was reported in a teenage...

The Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection (CHP) of the Department of Health is investigating a case of necrotising fasciitis (NF) involving a man aged 50. This is the fourth case reported in the past...

Both Pakistan and Afghanistan, two of the remaining endemic countries,  reported new wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases during the past week, according to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI)...

The Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection (CHP) of the Department of Health is investigating a suspected ciguatera poisoning case affecting a 38-year-old man. The patient, with good past health, developed...