Three people, ages 16 through 26, from a poor mountainous village in the central province of Quang Nam have died and health officials have identified diphtheria as the cause, according to Vietnamese media. A...

Vietnamese health officials in the Mekong Delta province of Ca Mau are reporting the case of a 10-year-old boy who has been hospitalized with an infection with the rat lungworm, Angiostrongylus cantonensis. He...

Dengue is a mosquito-borne viral disease that has rapidly spread in all regions of the globe. The actual numbers of dengue cases are underreported and many cases are misclassified. One recent estimate...

In Vietnam, a massive anti-dengue fever campaign was launched Sunday  across eight disease-prone cities and provinces nationwide. This comes after reports the country has more than 20,000 cases of dengue...

The number of hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) cases in Asia so far this year sees one country reporting tens of thousands, and others reporting thousands of cases of the viral, typically childhood...

Malaysia As the number of dengue fever cases in Malaysia nears 35,000 cases for the year, the Malaysian Medical Association (MMA) is calling on the public to do it’s part to curb the outbreak. According...

Malaysian health officials, in an updated report, say that the number of dengue fever cases in the country has risen to 27,382 since the beginning of the year after the addition of 222 cases reported on...

Vietnam health officials have reported a surge in dengue fever in southern Vietnam so far in 2015 where an increase of 27 percent in cases have been seen as compared the the same period in 2014. Statistics...

Vietnamese health authorities say a rubella outbreak was first recorded early this month at a US-invested furniture company in an industrial park in Binh Duong Province has grown to affect 30 people,...

The number of fatalities due to measles infection in the Philippines has topped 100 during the first 10 months of 2014, according to the WHO Western Pacific Region Measles-Rubella Bulletin fro Oct 2014. From...