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AUSTRALIAN DIES OF RARE MOSQUITO-BORNE DISEASE AFTER VISITING THAILAND
Updated June 21, 2017 17 59 09 An Australian man returned from Thailand has died from the rare but potentially fatal mosquito-borne disease, Japanese encephalitis... READ MORE›
ANALYSIS | HOW WAR BROUGHT CHOLERA AND POLIO BACK TO THE MIDDLE EAST
A child receives treatment at a hospital amid a serious cholera outbreak in Sanaa, Yemen's capital, on June 14... READ MORE›
BRAZILIAN SCIENTISTS DEVELOP BIOSENSOR FOR CHEAP DENGUE DIAGNOSIS
Brazilian scientists have developed a biosensor that can quickly detect dengue and could help create a cheap tool to diagnose the painful mosquito-borne vi... READ MORE›
YEMEN HAS SEEN 100,000 CHOLERA CASES, 789 DEATHS IN PAST MONTH
A cholera outbreak of more than 100,000 cases has erupted in war-ravaged Yemen, killing nearly 800 people, in just over a month, the World Health Organizat... READ MORE›
SUICIDE RATE IS HIGHEST IN EUROPE
Almost 800,000 deaths by suicide occurred in 2015, according to World Health Statistics, a publication from the World Health Organization WHO ... READ MORE›
ZIKA EMERGENCY DECLARED OVER IN BRAZIL
The mosquito-borne virus wasn't considered a major health threat until the 2015 outbreak revealed that Zika can lead to severe birth defects... READ MORE›
BRAZIL ENDS STATE OF EMERGENCY OVER ZIKA VIRUS
Brazil has declared an end to its public health emergency over the Zika virus, 18 months after a surge in cases drew headlines around the world... READ MORE›
400 PREGNANT WOMEN INFECTED BY ZIKA VIRUS IN ECUADOR IN PAST YEAR
Around 400 pregnant women have been contaminated by the Zika virus in Ecuador since April 2016, the Minister of Public Health, Veronica Espinoza, said Thursday... READ MORE›
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GUARDIAN.CO.UK EGYPTIAN COURT SENTENCES 183 MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD SUPPORTERS TO DEATH 1 HR AGO
In all these places, the people fishing with mosquito nets tend to be those without boats or even tackle, often women and children, the most dispossessed... READ MORE›
AUSTRALIAN WORLD FIRST AS MALARIA VACCINE PASSES HUMAN TRIAL
In a world first a new malaria vaccine developed by Australian scientists has passed its first test in early human trials... READ MORE›
GUARDIAN.CO.UK EGYPTIAN COURT SENTENCES 183 MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD SUPPORTERS TO DEATH 1 HR AGO
In all these places, the people fishing with mosquito nets tend to be those without boats or even tackle, often women and children, the most dispossessed... READ MORE›
ALARM SPREADS IN BRAZIL OVER A VIRUS AND A SURGE IN MALFORMED INFANTS
Brazil waged war on the Aedes aegypti mosquito for decades during the 20th century before a vaccine was developed for yellow fever... READ MORE›
ZIKA VIRUS SPREADING EXPLOSIVELY, SAYS WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION
It was deeply concerning that the virus had now been detected in 23 countries in the Americas, she added... READ MORE›
FIRST LOCALLY TRANSMITTED CASES IN CONTINENTAL U.S.
Four individuals in Miami-Dade and Broward counties have been infected with the Zika virus by local mosquitoes, Florida health officials said Friday... READ MORE›
WORLD'S FIRST MALARIA VACCINE APPROVED AFTER 30 YEARS OF TRIALS
Sir Andrew Witty, CEO of GSK, said Today's scientific opinion represents a further important step towards making available for young children the world's first malaria vaccine... READ MORE›
ZIKA VIRUS MAY BE LINKED TO SURGE IN RARE SYNDROME IN BRAZIL
The virus, called Zika, made its way to Brazil recently but is spreading rapidly around Latin America and the Caribbean... READ MORE›
FOUR CLOSE TO U.S. EBOLA PATIENT QUARANTINED IN DALLAS APARTMENT
None of those thought to have had contact with the patient were showing symptoms of Ebola, Dallas County officials said at a news conference... READ MORE›
WINNIPEG LAB EMPLOYEE POSSIBLY EXPOSED TO EBOLA VIRUS
An employee at the National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease in Winnipeg has potentially been exposed to the Ebola virus... READ MORE›
DOZENS OF COUNTRIES POISED TO DRIVE OUT MALARIA BY 2020
Hopes of eliminating malaria from more than 30 countries with a total population of 2 billion have risen following the successful removal of the disease from Sri Lanka... READ MORE›
BIRD FLU FOUND ON BRITISH DUCK FARM NOT THE DEADLY H5N1 STRAIN
On the basis of what we know of the strain to date, Public Health England has said that this strain does not present a threat to public health."... READ MORE›
FLORIDA MAY HAVE ITS FIRST ZIKA VIRUS OUTBREAK
Small, local outbreaks of Zika virus are fully expected in southern states such as Florida, Louisiana and Texas... READ MORE›
BRAZIL EBOLA CASE TESTS NEGATIVE
Souleymane Bah went to a public health centre in the town of Cascavel in the southern state of Parana after suffering a fever... READ MORE›
ZIKA VIRUS LIKELY TO SPREAD THROUGHOUT THE AMERICAS, SAYS WHO
Evidence includes temporal association between Zika outbreaks and microcephaly outbreaks both in Brazil and French Polynesia, she said... READ MORE›
WHO DECLARES END OF ZIKA EMERGENCY BUT SAYS VIRUS REMAINS A THREAT
Officials on WHO's Emergency Committee made clear the Zika still constitutes a global public health threat... READ MORE›
WHY MOSQUITOES SEEM TO BITE SOME PEOPLE MORE
But most of this research uses only one mosquito species... READ MORE›
RE-EMERGENCE OF EBOLA IN LIBERIA REMAINS A MYSTERY
The six new infections in Liberia since June 21 include two deaths... READ MORE›
WHAT CAN NIGERIAS EBOLA EXPERIENCE TEACH THE WORLD?
A nurse treating him later died and it was only when malaria treatment failed that Nigeria's first case of Ebola was identified... READ MORE›
IN A SMALL COLOMBIAN TOWN ZIKA MAY BE REVEALING A MORE DEADLY SIDE
The Colombian government has confirmed three fatalities with Guillain-Barre, including two of the Turbo patients, blaming the deaths on Zika... READ MORE›
EBOLA EPIDEMIC FUELLED BY 'SUPER-SPREADERS': STUDY
Most of the people who were infected with Ebola in the 2014 West Africa epidemic contracted the viral disease through super-spreaders, researchers say... READ MORE›
BRAZIL ON HIGH ALERT AS YELLOW FEVER THREATENS MAJOR CITIES
What we have is an epidemic of disinformation about yellow fever ..... READ MORE›
AUSSIE DIAGNOSED WITH ZIKA AFTER BALI MONKEY BITE, EXPERTS WARN OF MISSED CASES
They had stumbled on a 27-year local man who contracted the disease despite having never travelled outside of Indonesia... READ MORE›
IN ZIKA EPIDEMIC A WARNING ON CLIMATE CHANGE
Likewise, it is unclear how effective the Asian tiger mosquito might become at transmitting Zika or dengue viruses... READ MORE›
US SCIENTISTS SAY VACCINE '10 YEARS AWAY'
Prof Scott Weaver described the disease as frightening people in countries across Latin America and the Caribbean... READ MORE›
EBOLA NURSE HITS OUT AT 'BLAME CULTURE' AT PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND
Pauline Cafferkey criticises health body over botched airport screening process after fellow nurse Donna Wood suspended... READ MORE›
BRAZIL LINKS ZIKA FEVER TO BIRTH DEFECTS
But ministry officials have issued warnings to women to think carefully about getting pregnant at the moment in areas where there are Zika fever cases... READ MORE›
NEW DISCOVERY MEANS MORE U.S. STATES WILL FACE A RISK FROM ZIKA
The discovery of Zika in the Asian tiger mosquito means states and counties in the insect's range need to rethink their control plans, he said... READ MORE›
CLIMATE CHANGE MAY HAVE HELPED SPREAD ZIKA VIRUS ACCORDING TO WHO SCIENTISTS
As climate change reaches almost every corner of the Earth's ecology, different diseases could be unleashed... READ MORE›
ZIKA VIRUS OUTBREAK WILL LIKELY SPREAD ACROSS AMERICAS, WHO SAYS
The WHO added that Aedes mosquitoes -- the main vector for Zika transmission -- are present in all the region's countries except Canada and continental Chile... READ MORE›