Health officials on the Caribbean island group, Turks and Caicos (TCI), are reporting a significant increase in chickenpox cases during the first four months of 2016. As of the end of the week of April...

With the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil only three months away and the Zika and dengue outbreaks running rampant, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a travel notice...

Weeks after players from the Miami Marlins and Pittsburgh Pirates first expressed concerns over a end of May game scheduled in San Juan where Zika virus is flourishing, Major League Baseball (MLB) and...

The number of confirmed dengue fever and dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) cases in Mexico are up more than 18 percent this year to date compared to the same period in 2015, according to the Mexico Health...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a travel notice for the South American country of Peru after several locally transmitted Zika infections were reported. Related: Zika: Panama...

Health officials in Colombia have issued an alert to an outbreak of the disfiguring parasitic infection, leishmaniasis, which has already affected 80 people, according to a La Opinion report (computer...

The Virgin Islands Department of Health confirmed one additional case of Zika on St. Croix and one in St. Thomas. The total confirmed Zika cases is now 16; 14 of which are on St. Croix and two on St. Thomas. “Today’s...

On Friday, Prefect of Guadeloupe, Jacques Billant announced that a Zika epidemic was officially declared on the island group in the southern Caribbean Sea, according to LeMonde report (computer translated). “We...

  In early March, CDC Director Dr Thomas Frieden said while visiting Puerto Rico to assess the Zika virus situation, ” We anticipate in the coming weeks and month we will see large increases...

In what is the first epidemiological bulletin released by the Brazil Health Ministry with registered Zika data, we find that health officials have reported 91,300 cases through February and March this...