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October 28, 2015

Monsoons could bring disease, a second crisis, to Nepal, UNICEF says

There is only "a small window of time" for relief workers in Nepal to put in place measures to protect people from deadly disease outbreaks, a senior United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) official said on Saturday.

October 28, 2015

Drug-resistant tuberculosis at crisis levels, warns WHO

Multi drug-resistant tuberculosis remains at crisis levels, with about 480,000 new cases this year, and various forms of the lung disease killed about 1.5 million people in 2013, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday.

October 28, 2015

Blacks fare worse than whites after heart attacks

After a heart attack, black patients typically don't live as long as whites - a racial difference that is starkest among the affluent - according to a new U.S. study.

October 28, 2015

New drug compound may beat malaria with single $1 dose

Scientists have discovered a new anti-malarial compound that could treat patients with a single $1 dose, including those with strains of the mosquito-borne disease that are resistant to current drugs.

October 28, 2015

Thinking beyond Ebola: Will these viruses be the next public health crises?

As the Ebola epidemic rages on in West Africa— where the virus has already claimed the lives of more than 5,000 people— epidemiologists in the United States are speculating over which ailments could go viral next.

October 28, 2015

Liberia: Doctor given experimental Ebola drug dies

Liberia's information minister says a doctor given an experimental drug to fight Ebola has died.

October 28, 2015

San Francisco commuters possibly exposed to measles on train

Tens of thousands of commuters on San Francisco's Bay Area Rapid Transit system may have been exposed to measles after an infectious Bay Area resident rode a train to and from work for three days last week, public health officials said on Wednesday.

October 28, 2015

Avian flu spreading in southwest British Columbia

The avian influenza outbreak in southwest British Columbia has spread to seven farms, and 155,000 birds have died of the virus or will be euthanized, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said.

October 28, 2015

7 more people sick with Legionnaires’ disease in NYC

More people in New York City are sick with Legionnaires' disease in what appears to be a new cluster of cases, health officials say.

October 28, 2015

Bird flu vaccine, under development, divides US poultry industry

The death of more than 46 million chickens and turkeys in a bird flu outbreak is opening a rare fissure within the usually tight-knit U.S. poultry industry, pitting farmers with infected flocks against those who so far largely have sidestepped the worst outbreak in U.S. history.