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October 25, 2015

Mosquito-borne chikungunya virus spreading rapidly in Haiti

A mosquito-borne virus that was detected for the first time in Haiti last week has quickly spread throughout the Caribbean nation, a health official said Tuesday.

October 25, 2015

India quarantines man with Ebola-infected semen

A 26-year-old Indian man who recovered from Ebola in Liberia has been placed in isolation at the New Delhi airport after traces of the virus were found in his semen, India's Health Ministry said Tuesday.

October 24, 2015

Liberia reports first new case of Ebola in weeks

Liberia reported its first Ebola case in weeks on Friday, a woman whom authorities suspect may have contracted the virus through sexual intercourse with a survivor, in a setback to efforts to halt the outbreak in West Africa.

October 24, 2015

Sierra Leone orders three-day lockdown amid Ebola crisis

Authorities are ordering people in Sierra Leone to stay inside their homes for three days later this month as part of an effort to stop the spread of Ebola, which has killed more than 2,000 people across West Africa, a government spokesman said Saturday.

October 24, 2015

Bird flu is major threat to poultry along migration routes, officials say

A bird flu strain found in Europe represents a major threat to the poultry industry in countries crossed by migrating wild birds, two intergovernmental organizations said on Monday.

October 24, 2015

Canada hopes avian flu is contained to 4 farms

Canadian officials hope an avian flu outbreak has been contained to four quarantined poultry farms in British Columbia.

October 24, 2015

Family members at US embassy to leave Sierra Leone due to Ebola

The United States said on Thursday it had ordered family members at the U.S. Embassy in Freetown, Sierra Leone to depart because of limitations on regular medical care as a result of the Ebola outbreak.

October 24, 2015

Nigeria now has 10 Ebola cases, health minister confirms

Nigeria's Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu, says that the West African country has one more confirmed Ebola case, a nurse who was treating Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian-American who flew into the country with the disease and died of it last month.

October 24, 2015

Dengue fever: Why it’s becoming more common in the U.S. and what Americans should know

Last week, health officials announced that a New York man had contracted dengue fever – an infectious disease found predominantly in tropical climates – from a local mosquito, raising questions about the prevalence of the disease in the United States.

October 24, 2015

Woman, child die of bird flu in Egypt, five deaths so far this year

An Egyptian woman and child died of H5N1 bird flu, the health ministry said on Monday, the fourth and fifth persons to die of the illness in the country this year.