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...
State officials in northern Mexico on Monday reported another death caused by a mysterious meningitis outbreak, bringing the total number of victims linked to the disease to 35.
To date, health authorities in Mexico's largely rural Durango state...
The people of Princes Town have been living in a horror movie for the past two weeks.
The Moruga locusts (Coscineuta virens) have swarmed by the millions, munching through fruit trees and ornamental plants, and threatening...
The Government has urged the public to keep watch for the Asian "predatory wasps" after bee experts confirmed the sighting of the terrifying insects in Essex. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) warned...
An outbreak of a virulent antibiotic bacteria was found to have “contaminated a whole ICU” in China, a study led by researchers from the University of Birmingham has reported. The team believes “carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii” —...
North Korea has dispatched medical crews and epidemiological investigators to a province battling the outbreak of an intestinal disease, state media reported on Sunday.
At least 800 families suffering from what North Korea has only called...
The biggest ever avian flu outbreak that the world has ever seen has spread from birds to mammals for the first time. With 200 cases recorded in mammals, including grizzly bears, mink, dolphins and seals, fears are...
Mosquitos carrying West Nile virus were found near the southern city of Yeruham and surrounding Ramat Negev Regional Council, the first time the disease has been detected in Israel this year, government authorities said Wednesday.
The...
The COVID-19 pandemic isn’t over. In fact, it shows signs of lingering for, well, a long time.
But even as politicians and health authorities struggle with how, if at all, to keep addressing the current pandemic, scientists are already anticipating the next one. They’re scouring...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning travelers to Equatorial Guinea to take "enhanced precautions" and avoid non-essential travel to some areas of the African nation due to an outbreak of the...