In Sindh province, Pakistan, 250 dengue fever cases have been reported since the beginning of the year. 235 of the cases, including one death has been reported in the provincial capital of Karachi. In...

The number of measles cases in Pakistan more than doubled in 2017, compared to the number of cases the previous year. According to World Health Organization-Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean...

In an update on polio news from the most recent week, we look at updates from Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Australia. Syria According to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), the total number...

Health officials have reported an additional fatality due the “brain-eating amoeba”, Naegleria fowleri in a male resident from North Karachi, according to a local news source. This brings...

An outbreak of the vaccine preventable disease, measles, has struck theQadirabad area of Nushki district in Balochistan province killing eleven children and leaving dozens (40) hospitalized, according...

The number of wild poliovirus (WPV) cases reported in 2017 remains down compared to last year, particularly in Pakistan where only five wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases have been reported year-to-date,...

In a follow-up to a report less than two weeks ago, the provincial health department of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province in Pakistan has reported a cumulative total of 74,820 cases of suspected dengue fever...

In the city of  Peshawar in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa of Pakistan a dengue outbreak is ravishing the city. Since mid July, about 55,000 cases, including 50 deaths have been reported in the city,...

UN health officials are reported seven additional Circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus (cVDPV2) cases–5 cases from Mayadeen and 1 from Boukamal districts, Deir Ez-Zor governorate, and 1 case from...

In a follow-up on the chikungunya outbreak in Pakistan, health officials in Sindh province are reporting 4,312 cases of chikungunya year-to-date. Karachi has been hardest hit. This is up from 405 cases...