The number of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases have topped 300 globally as the bad situation in Pakistan continues. With reports of 14 additional cases from Pakistan and one from Afghanistan, the global...

UPDATE: India Orders Massive Cull Over HPAI H5 Outbreak In Ducks A red alert has been sounded after laboratory analysis confirmed the cause of death of some 17,000 ducks in Central Kerala was due to avian...

Following last years numbers of measles cases and fatalities in the southwestern Pakistan province of Balochistan, >700 and 43, respectively, a proposal for a measles vaccination campaign was submitted...

An Indian man who traveled from Liberia to India is currently in quarantine at the Delhi airport after his semen sample tested positive for the Ebola virus. According to the Indian government, the 26-year-old...

The number of dengue fever cases reported in the city formerly known as Bombay, Mumbai was about 4,000 during the month of October, according to a Times of India report. The high number of cases comes...

An outbreak of chickenpox has affected at least 10 children at Ashokjhar village in Jajpur district in Odisha state, India, according to a recent Times of India report. Of the Juang tribal children affected,...

In an unusual story out of India, a young lioness who attacked  five people in the Kachivada area of Amreli died over the weekend from suspected rabies, according to a Times of India report Thursday. The...

While in the United States there were less than five cases of diphtheria reported to the CDC in the past decade, the disease continues to play a role globally. In 2011, 4,887 cases of diphtheria were...

Dengue fever has made it’s presence known in the northeastern city of Rawalpindi as recent reports say the northern Punjab city has topped 1,000 cases. The total number of confirmed patients reported...

As World Polio Week came to a close Wednesday, we got a look at the great progress that has been accomplished since 1988 when the forty-first World Health Assembly adopted a resolution for the worldwide...