MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Islamic extremists made Imana Alhaji Gana's village in northeastern Nigeria too dangerous for health workers to vaccinate against polio. Now that she and her family have fled...
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's Health Ministry says its yellow fever vaccination campaign is significantly short of its goal and that 10 million people still need to be immunized.
In Janu...
TAIPEI (Taiwan News)--The Taiwan Centers for Disease Control (Taiwan CDC) said Wednesday that the agency has traced the contacts of a confirmed rubella case and found none of them had developed any su...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Thousands of university students and employees targeted by email phishing schemes this year have taken the bait. Fortunately, they were duped not by real scammers, but by their o...
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani official says authorities have launched a new polio vaccination drive, aiming to reach 38.7 million children under the age of 5.
Pakistan is one of few c...
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The Taiwan Centers for Disease Control (CDC) confirmed yesterday evening that two more cases of measles in Taiwan have been contracted by flight attendants,...
TAIPEI (Taiwan News)--The Taiwan Centers for Disease Control (Taiwan CDC) on March 29 urged adult travelers planning to visit areas affected by measles epidemic to visit the outpatient trave...
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's Health Ministry says 1,131 people have been infected with yellow fever in the largest outbreak the Latin American country has seen in decades.
The ministry ...
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Prosecutors in Poland are suing a private firm accused of tricking homeless people into unwitting participation in bird flu vaccine tests in 2007.
Prosecution s...
BROOKVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Authorities are on the hunt for a possibly rabid coyote that mauled a Pennsylvania woman, leaving her badly wounded and "drenched in blood."
Brookville borough...
TAIPEI (Taiwan News)—The Taiwan Centers for Disease Control (Taiwan CDC) on Friday (March 16) urged the public to pay attention to hand hygiene and maintain proper indoor ventilation following t...
CAIRO (AP) — The World Health Organization says a diphtheria outbreak in war-torn Yemen has spread rapidly nationwide and infected more than 1,300 people.
WHO said in a statement tha...
SAO PAULO (AP) — Elisangela Santos doesn't understand why everyone in her neighborhood on the outskirts of Sao Paulo is being told to get vaccinated for yellow fever this year. Yellow fever has long b...
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's yellow fever outbreak has now infected more people than the previous one, which had been the largest in decades.
The Health Ministry said Wednesday that off...
LONDON (AP) — While parts of the world have all but banished measles, Europe is still getting hit with large outbreaks where some people don't get vaccinated.
Measles is still a bigg...
