Although Ebola is dominating news coverage in every form, we are reminded that other outbreaks of exotic viral diseases continue and new cases pop up from time to time. Whether it be MERS, dengue fever...

For the second time this month, Gansu Province Health and Family Commission officials reported a death due Yersinia pestis infection, or the plague, according to the Zhongxin Network (computer translated). The...

The good news in south China’s Guangdong Province is Sunday was the first day in October where the case count did not exceed 1,000, tallying 910 cases, according to a Xinhua report Monday. This...

The Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection (CHP) of the Department of Health (DH) announced Friday the number of imported dengue fever cases seen in the city last week, in light of the outbreak in South...

With the addition of 1,412 new cases of dengue fever in south China’s Guangdong Province, health authorities with the provincial health and family planning commission say the number of cases reported...

Local health authorities in south China’s Guangdong Province reported another 1,800 dengue fever cases Wednesday in the worst outbreak in the region in 20 years. The total cases have reached 26,270...

The dengue fever outbreak in South China’s Guangdong Province seems to steamroll ahead as health authorities report an additional 1,400 cases Tuesday. Officials from the Guangdong Province CDC...

The Guangdong Provincial Centre for Disease Control and Prevention reported another 1,400 dengue fever cases on Sunday, bringing the outbreak total in the South China province to over 21,000. The 20...

A total of 1,215 new dengue fever cases were found in China’s Guangdong province Friday, authorities said Saturday. The total number of dengue fever cases in Guangdong has climbed to 18,866, including...

A man from Jiuquan City, Gansu Province died Wednesday after contracting the serious bacterial infection, plague, according to a Xinhua report today. The fatality comes a few months after another man...