Pestilence and Disease

The island nation, which has Africa's highest child malnutrition rate, is carrying out an emergency response to its latest measles outbreak, which has killed at ...

English News and Press Release on Nigeria and 2 other countries about Health and Epidemic; published on 14 Feb 2019 by WHO.

English News and Press Release on Democratic Republic of the Congo about Health, Children and Epidemic; published on 14 Feb 2019 by WHO.

BOZEMAN, Mont. — Three new cases of the mumps have been reported in Bozeman schools, and nurses are calling parents whose children aren't vaccinated ...

Kathy Calvin and Gail McGovern write that far too many people -- many of them children -- die from measles each year, but it's an easily preventable disease if ...

Patients with co-morbid condition like low immunity, on immune-suppressant, blood cancer, renal transplant, diabetes, heart disease are at high risk of getting ...

Hedgehogs are linked to a Salmonella outbreak in the US, the CDC said. 11 people in 8 states have the strain. One has been hospitalized. 3 people are from ...

SEOUL (REUTERS) - South Korea has identified a case of foot-and-mouth disease at a dairy cow farm, the first discovery of the disease in the country since ...

After a peak average of 14 new confirmed cases a week last summer, Wayne County has had an average of only 1.5 over the past six weeks.

Ukraine's State Food Safety and Consumer Protection *Service* says veterinary experts have reported another African swine fever (ASF) outbreak in ...

Santa Barbara, Calif. – A farm on California's Central Coast linked to the massive E. coli outbreak involving romaine lettuce has announced a recall of ...

A 2017 outbreak of epidemic keratoconjunctivitis at an eye care clinic in Los Angeles was caused by a novel human adenovirus type, according to study findings ...

English News and Press Release on Democratic Republic of the Congo about Health and Epidemic; published on 13 Dec 2018 by WHO.

The Kentucky Department for Public Health has identified an outbreak of hepatitis A. The department reports nearly 3000 cases of disease -- over 100 of which ...

The anti-vaccine movement is alive and well, and it's not working out so well for a batch of children in Sarasota. WFLA says that health officials are delivering ...

Experts rush to determine the cause of the disease known as AFM as surges occur in alternate years.

More than 2000 people in Japan have been diagnosed with rubella, or German measles, the worst outbreak in five years, prompting warnings to visitors ...

The United Nations and South Sudan are taking extreme precautions to prevent any spread of Ebola from neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo, which is ...

Federal officials are again urging consumers to check their homes for recalled tahini products that are associated with an international outbreak of Salmon.