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The WHO has repeatedly warned that as long as any single child remains infected with polio, children everywhere are at risk. The World Health Organisation (WHO) began an emergency meeting with experts on Monday on how to halt the spread…
The first case of the SARS-like novel coronavirus was discovered in Egypt according to state television.  The patient, who is now in a hospital in the capital city, Cairo, had arrived recently in the country from Saudi Arabia, RT…
As per Saudi Arabia on Friday, 14 more cases were discovered with the deadly virus Mers. It already increases to a total number of 313.  The new cases had been reported in the capital Riyadh, Jeddah and Mecca as…
Less than 24 hours after St Vincent and the Grenadines confirmed an outbreak of the chikungunya virus, another Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country is reporting its first case of the mosquito-borne disease. Antigua and Barbuda health officials Friday held a news…
A man in Athens, Greece was recently admitted to intensive care at a local hospital and diagnosed with the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus, according to local health officials and the World Health Organization. The 69-year-old patient had recently traveled…
Information received on 16/04/2014 from Mr Ri Kyong Gun, Director of the Veterinary and, Ministry of Agriculture, Anti-Epizootic Department, PYONGYANG, Korea (Dem. People’s Rep.)
The agriculture ministry announced Sunday a suspected outbreak of bird flu that killed at least 1,100 chickens at a farm in Taragi, Kumamoto Prefecture, prompting the prefectural government to order the culling of 112,000 chickens kept there and at another…
Two foreigners died of MERS in the Saudi city of Jeddah, the health ministry said Saturday, as fears rise over the spreading respiratory virus in the kingdom’s commercial hub.The ministry said five more people were infected with the Middle East…
A major French biomedical research body, the Pasteur Institute, have launched an investigation into the disappearance of some 2,300 test tubes containing samples of the SARS virus. The loss was discovered during an inventory.  The Pasteur Institute filed a…
A sudden uptick in the SARS-like corona virus called MERS-CoVfor Middle Eastern Respiratory Coronavirus is partially related to health care workers becoming infected with the disease. This month the World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed 32 cases of the virus so…