Nigerian health officials reported 90 confirmed Lassa fever cases in the last week of February, including 12 deaths. This brings the total for the first two months of 2022 to 540 confirmed cases and ...

Citing potential Cyclospora risk, today Fresh Express expanded its recall of products containing iceberg lettuce, red cabbage and carrots. The salad products were produced at Fresh Express’ Streamwood ...

In a follow-up on the chikungunya outbreak in Ethiopia, nearly 2,000 additional suspected cases have been reported in recent weeks, bringing the outbreak total from Dire Dawa City Administrative City ...

Cambridge, Massachusetts company, Public Health Vaccines, LLC announced today the start of its Phase 1 clinical trial to evaluate the safety and immunogenicity of the company’s single-dose vaccine ...

While many parents are unaware of the risks, one father made some noise on Tik Tok with a new video: daughter has pinworms. Justin, a dad that runs the TikTok page drumbeatlane took to social media to ...

An alert was issued in the department of Antioquia, Colombia due to the increase in cases of leptospirosis, a disease transmitted by rodents to humans and that, if not caught early, it can be fatal.

All of the travelers were exposed to the freshwater in the Cavu River on the island of Corsica (France) and had not traveled to other areas where schistosomiasis is known to occur. Including the ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) reported a total of 75 cases and 2 deaths due to monkeypox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) the last week of February. Monkeypox Image/CDC During the ...

An anti-parasitic drug will be rolled out on mass scale in the Solomon Islands to prevent scabies, a contagious, intensely itchy skin condition that affects a third of the nation’s children. Scabies ...

Europe has recorded the most measles cases in years when seeing more than 75,000 cases in 2018. In Ukraine alone, 54,000 cases were reported. In 2019 to date, Ukraine has already recorded 24,000 cases ...

George Mason University economics professor, Dr Walter Williams recently published an op-ed suggesting that illegal or undocumented immigrants are a source of infectious diseases in the country.

Officials in the northern Afghanistan province of Badakhshan say at least 74 children have died in a measles outbreak in Kuf Ab and Kohistan districts, according to a Afghan Islamic Press report.