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The Health Ministry last week said the country is in a Pandemic Influenza preparedness state to meet any entry of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus into the country. The Health Ministry’s Epidemiology Unit (EU) said that…
Sierra Leone has enforced a curfew in the face of renewed outbreaks of the deadly Ebola virus in the north west of the country. The government has extended the state of emergency Sierra Leone’s president has announced a three-week curfew…
Phuket Health officials have ramped up efforts this week in order to identify passengers who are possibly carrying the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus (Mers-CoV) to the island from South Korea or the Middle East, where the virus is spreading. …
South Korea reported a 10th death from the MERS virus on Thursday, although officials say they believe the disease has peaked. The victim was a 65-year-old man who had been treated for lung cancer and was hospitalized in the…
Hong Kong authorities were testing two people for possible Middle East respiratory syndrome (Mers) on Thursday as worry grew across the region about the outbreak in South Korea. The two Hong Kong people had recently travelled to South Korea,…
On June 10 at 09:00 UTC (5 a.m. EDT), the MODIS instrument aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this visible image of Tropical Cyclone Ashobaa off the coast of Oman. Credit: NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response Team Two NASA satellites provided…
There’s a critical fire danger warning in effect for parts of Southwestern and Central Oregon on Tuesday as a lightning storm hit part of the state. A red flag warning was issued for Southwest Oregon as scattered thunderstorms…
Businesses boarded over windows and thousands of troops were put on alert Saturday as Hurricane Blanca roared toward Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula as a powerful Category 3 storm. The unpredictable Blanca, which strengthened suddenly from a Category 1 to…
The India Met Department has upgraded the well-marked ‘low’ over the east-central Arabian Sea to a monsoon depression, the first of the season. It lay centred about 690 km southwest of Mumbai, 740 km south-southwest of Veraval, and 1,230…