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October 24, 2015

Japan battles first dengue fever outbreak in 70 years

A dengue fever outbreak has hit Japan for the first time in over 70 years with at least 22 confirmed cases, BBC News reported.

October 24, 2015

Liberia sets national target of no new Ebola cases by December 25

Liberia has set a national goal of having no new cases of Ebola by Dec. 25, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said in a radio address on Sunday, in a further sign that authorities believe they are getting on top of the virus.

October 24, 2015

Ebola outbreak: Do hazmat suits protect workers, or just scare everyone?

For health care workers and researchers, wearing pressurized, full-body suits around Ebola patients may be counterproductive to treating the disease, say three Spanish researchers in a new letter published in the journal The Lancet.

October 24, 2015

Ebola serum: Explaining the Americans' experimental treatments

An American doctor who was working in West Africa and another health care worker, also American, who contracted Ebola there have both received experimental treatments for the deadly viral disease, according to news reports

October 24, 2015

Cholera outbreak kills 19 in flood-hit Mozambique

A cholera outbreak in parts of Mozambique hit by floods has killed 19 people, the government said, raising the death toll from one of the worst disasters to hit southern Africa in years.

October 24, 2015

Egyptian dies of H5N1 bird flu, bringing total to seven

Another Egyptian has died of H5N1 bird flu, bringing the total number of deaths in Egypt from the virus to seven this year out of 14 identified cases, the health ministry said on Wednesday.

October 24, 2015

WHO declares polio an international public health emergency

The World Health Organization says the spread of polio is an international public health emergency that threatens to infect other countries with the crippling disease.

October 24, 2015

With more MERS cases, South Korea says outbreak at a crossroads

South Korea's health ministry, which reported four new cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) on Wednesday, said the outbreak was at a crossroads, backing off from its earlier view that the spread of the often-deadly virus had leveled off.

October 24, 2015

Scientists grapple with ethics in rush to release Ebola vaccines

Normally it takes years to prove a new vaccine is both safe and effective before it can be used in the field. But with hundreds of people dying a day in the worst ever outbreak of Ebola, there is no time to wait.

October 24, 2015

Taxis, planes and bikes: How deadly Ebola can spread

For scientists tracking the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa, it's not about complex virology and genotyping, but about how contagious microbes - like humans - use planes, bikes and taxis to spread.