A government-chartered flight from Wuhan, China carrying more than 200 U.S. citizens was diverted from its original destination to a military base in California.
The virus might be down, but it's not out. Zika cases in the past year have been decreasing on the whole across North and South America, but we might not be out of the woods yet as we head into the warm summer months.
Yellow fever in rural Brazil has claimed 220 lives and the number is slowly rising. The United States is worried of possible travel-related yellow fever especially in the warmer areas in the Gulf Coast.
The cash-strapped island cannot afforts to fund hospitals and hospital staff necessary for fighting Zika, the bloodborne disease that can have devastating affects on infants and pregnant women.
The Zika virus has been sweeping Latin America, but health officials in the U.S. are being warned of the possibility of the virus reaching the country during the mosquito season. Summer, which will bring with it a rise in mosquito numbers, might see some scattered outbreaks of Zika in the U.S.
A rare blood infection caused by the Elizabethkingia anopheles bacteria has been contracted by people in Wisconsin the past few months, but it was recently confirmed to have claimed a life in Michigan. This brings the total death toll of the illness to 18, with the 17 people already having died of the infection in Wisconsin since the outbreak first occurred in November 2015.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released guidelines on prescribing opioids including OxyCotin and Percocet. Much of the advice is geared for primary care physicians, who prescribe nearly half of the opioid painkillers in the United States.
The director of the Center for Disease Control, Dr. Tom Frieden, has warned that the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico could soon face Zika virus infections reaching into the hundreds of thousands.
Obesity is a growing epidemic in the United States that affects people of all ages. A new study shows that more than half of the American diet comes from 'ultra-processed foods' in frozen pizza and breakfast cereals to name a few.
The United States is sending clean blood to prevent further spread of Zika virus in Puerto Rico because blood transfusion is seen as a means of transmitting the mosquito-borne virus. Request for funding has also been submitted to Congress.
Bolivia is practicing Zika virus prevention with a unique approach -- through a song. Bolivia is spreading awareness on Zika virus prevention through a song.
The HIV diagnoses rates are not looking good and it’s on track to some alarming numbers. A study by the researchers of Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revealed that if trends persist, one out of four Latino men who have sex with men (MSM) are projected to get HIV in their lifetime.
Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the US warned pregnant women not to travel to 22 countries, mostly situated in Latin America and the Caribbean
Ticks, the small bugs that carry Lyme disease virus, have been discovered to have extensively spread across the U.S. The insects were able to invade large parts of the states in the period of 20 years.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recently issued a travel warning for 14 Latin American nations and Caribbean territories that have exposed to Zika virus, a mosquito-borne virus connected to the increasing rate of birth defects in Brazil. The alert was issued late Friday and it includes Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Martinique, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Suriname, Venezuela and Puerto Rico.
A recent study found a new sexually transmitted disease that may have been common all along. A recent study found a new sexually transmitted disease (STD) that may have been common all along.
