Cholera has been detected in a Yarmouk River reservoir in northern Israel for the first time since a recent outbreak of the deadly disease in Lebanon and Syria, the Health Ministry announced on Friday.
After the...
Researchers in Japan say they’ve discovered “super” resistant mosquitoes in Asia. In a study published this week, they detail finding populations of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes—a common disease vector—in Vietnam and Cambodia carrying several mutations believed to confer...
More than 500 people got bitten by scorpions in Egypt’s southern province of Aswan. Officials report that strong hail storms and heavy rain forced scorpions out of their burrows and into the streets and people’s...
GENEVA (Reuters) - Confusion and complacency in addressing COVID-19 means the pandemic is a long way from over, but it can be brought under control in months with proven public health measures, WHO Director-General Tedros...
A virus with a fatality rate of up to 30 per cent is killing unprecedented numbers of people in Iraq.
Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever was first documented there in 1979 and historically there have been only a...
A once-rare flesh-eating sexually transmitted disease that causes “beefy red” ulcers is spreading across the UK, according to a report Friday.
Cases of donovanosis — which causes thick sores that damage genital tissue — have been...
Eleven NEW cases of Ebola virus disease have so far been confirmed by health officials in the northeastern province of North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
This is more than five months...
More than 600 people, mostly children, have died of diphtheria in Nigeria since the current outbreak began in December 2022, officials say.
With 14,000 suspected cases, this outbreak is far worse than the last one in...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States will begin screening travelers coming from Uganda for Ebola as an additional precaution aimed at trying to prevent an outbreak in the African country from spreading, the Biden administration said Thursday.
There have been...
A veterinarian in China has become his nation's first fatality from a rare virus spread by monkeys. The 53-year-old man contracted the Monkey B virus after dissecting two dead monkeys in March and died in...