Health officials in Vietnam say the dengue fever situation in the country a rapid downward trend in dengue cases is being seen. Since the beginning of the year, the country has recorded over 53,000 dengue...

Diphtheria is caused by a potent toxin produced by certain strains of the bacterium, Corynebacterium diphtheriae. This very serious disease can be prevented through vaccination. In the Asian country...

During the first nine months of 2014, health officials in the Philippines saw 82,000 cases of the mosquito borne viral disease, dengue fever, nationwide. With the massive surge in cases in recent months,...

Like many countries in south and southeast Asia this year, Vietnam is reporting increases in the mosquito borne viral disease, dengue fever, in fact the increase is up by the third compared to the same...

In the past three weeks, the number of dengue fever cases in Vietnam have grown to 43,000 cases nationally, up from 36,000 cases on Sep. 13, seriously pushing the health care system to the brink. During...

The dengue fever epidemic in Vietnam continues to escalate as the Southeast Asian country has seen a whopping 85 percent increase in cases this year compared to the same period in 2014. Local media puts...

Thailand For the first nearly nine months of 2015, the Thailand Bureau of Epidemiology puts the dengue fever case count at  76857 cases in 77, or all provinces in the country (morbidity rate was 118.02...

Taiwan Taiwan, which has been reporting record numbers of dengue fever cases daily during recent days, continued this trend Friday when the Taiwan CDC saw another 617 cases, bringing the total to 8,677...

The Vietnamese Department of Preventive Medicine under the Ministry of Health reported Monday that from Jan. through August of this year, 25,000 dengue fever cases have been reported. Of this total, 16...

The number of measles cases in the Western Pacific Region of the World Health Organization as a whole is down significantly through the first six months of 2015 compared to the same period last year. The...