Officials in South Korea may be breathing a sigh of relief as the MERS outbreak, which has closed over 2,000 schools and quarantined over 3,000 people, passes its critical two-week incubation period. And with infections mainly restricted to hospital settings, even health officials suggest the danger may be waning.
A measles outbreak in Europe sparked a step up in vaccination campaigns throughout the region after over 22,000 people were infected by the contagious disease since 2014. The World Health Organization in Europe called for more effective measles vaccination campaigns as the outbreak persists.
The United Nations' World Health Organization is continuing the testing of experimental vaccines and has become optimistic on the medicine's progress as well as the decreasing number of infections in Liberia.
Puerto Rico is facing an epidemic with the mosquito-borne illness chikungunya infecting over 10,000 people in the nation, according to a statement from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Thursday.
The Caribbean region has shown significant progress in reducing mother-to-baby HIV transmission according to a statement by the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS Monday.
Doctors Without Borders will team up with European research organizations, the WHO and the governments of Guinea and Liberia to test two drugs and one treatment, which would hopefully work against the Ebola virus.
The World Health Organization announced that by the end of next year, there will be millions of Ebola vaccines ready for delivery. Two companies are reportedly working to develop vaccines for the deadly virus, and trials will begin within the next couple of months.
The Ebola outbreak, which began earlier this year in Guinea and is the worst in recorded history, has reportedly claimed the lives of more than 3,000 people in West Africa.
New CDC report gives best- and worst-case scenarios If Ebola continues to spread in West Africa without proper methods to treat and prevent the disease, 1.
Agencies fighting Ebola virus outbreak need $1 billion A week after the World Health of Organization announced that fighting the Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa would cost $600 million, the United Nations General Secretary Ban Ki-Moon announced it was in need of $1 billion to do so.
The eight workers were attacked by villagers after they began spreading disinfectant around the village. The bodies were discovered by the government delegation sent on Thursday.
The country will enact a three-day lockdown to assess who is infected and prevent the spread of the disease, despite protests from international health organizations.
According to a new report by the World Health Organization, the death toll continues to rise in West Africa as the Ebola epidemic moves through the three nations at the center of the pandemic to neighboring nations. The report also highlights the possible existence of "shadow zones."
Virus has killed over 500 since February The World Health Organization (WHO) is reporting 50 new cases of Ebola and 25 deaths in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea since July 3.
Although many people in this country think tuberculosis (TB) as a disease of a bygone era and no longer a threat to modern day society they couldn’t be more wrong, the experts say. "World TB Day" is an annual event dedicated to fighting and eradicating this disease both in the U.S. and across the globe.
The World Health Organization confirms it was notified about two case of the mosquito-spread virus chikungunya by island authorities on Dec. 6, the first time transmission of the illness has been confirmed in the Americas.
