How to stop bed bugs infesting your luggage as Paris outbreak could make its way to UK
Before your next trip, keep your luggage safe from bed bugs with these top tips - including a Ziploc trick to try if you suspect…
Bangladesh dengue deaths cross 1,000 in worst outbreak on record | Health News
At least 1,017 die and nearly 209,000 are infected, making 2023 the deadliest year since the first recorded epidemic in 2000. More than 1,000 people…
MSF Calls For Urgent Response To Nigeria’s Escalating Diphtheria Outbreak
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is concerned about the record number of diphtheria cases in Nigeria. The international humanitarian organisation, also known as Doctors Without Borders,…
Photos: UN warns of disease outbreak in flood-ravaged Libya | Floods News
Officials have warned that a disease outbreak in Libya’s northeast, where floods have killed thousands, could create “a second devastating crisis” as adults and children…
What’s behind outbreak of violence in Kirkuk? | TV Shows
Several killed in unrest between ethnic communities in Iraqi city. A week of simmering tension has erupted into violence in Kirkuk in Iraq. This comes…
Once nearing extinction, golden lion tamarin monkeys rebound from yellow fever outbreak, habitat loss
There are now more golden lion tamarins bounding between branches in the Brazilian rainforest than at any time since efforts to save the species started…
Fruit fly outbreak prompts quarantine in Santa Clarita Valley
California agricultural officials have placed a 79-square-mile area in Los Angeles County under quarantine because of the presence of an invasive fruit fly. Residents in…
Africa waits for its share of mpox vaccines, a year after outbreak
WASHINGTON — As U.S. public health officials brace for a possible resurgence of mpox ahead of the summer festival season, experts are warning that European and…
South Africans blame gov’t as cholera outbreak kills 15 | Health News
South Africa’s Gauteng province declared a cholera outbreak on Sunday, with 41 confirmed cases and 15 deaths so far. As deaths from cholera this week…
CDC warns of an mpox rebound outbreak this summer
WASHINGTON — A new cluster of mpox cases in the United States — following nearly seven months of steady decline — is leading health officials to…
Five dead as Tanzania detects first-ever Marburg virus outbreak | Health News
Three of the eight confirmed cases are receiving treatment even as 161 contacts are being monitored, according to the WHO. Tanzania has confirmed eight cases…
Syrians displaced by quakes fear cholera outbreak as cases surge | Turkey-Syria Earthquake News
Idlib, Syria – Abdel Moneim Hamdo rushed his two children, one a toddler, to a hospital in the northwest Syrian city of Idlib after they complained…
Cholera outbreak in quake-hit northwestern Syria kills two people | Turkey-Syria Earthquake News
Two people have died and 568 non-fatal cases have been reported in the earthquake-hit areas of northwestern Syria. Two people have died of cholera in…
WHO intensifies surveillance in E Guinea after Marburg outbreak | Health News
The country officially declared its first outbreak of Marburg virus disease on Monday. The World Health Organization (WHO) has “intensified” surveillance after Equatorial Guinea confirmed…
Amid cholera outbreak, health fears grow in quake-hit Syria | Earthquakes News
Aid groups and public health experts warn that a series of devastating earthquakes could exacerbate a cholera outbreak in Syria first detected last year. The…
‘Secrecy the priority’: Guantanamo battling COVID outbreak | News
Medan, Indonesia – A reported outbreak of COVID-19 at the United States’s Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp in Cuba is causing concern for the legal counsel…
Nigerian Authorities Alert Health Workers On Diphtheria Outbreak
The Nigeria Center for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has directed health workers to “maintain a high index of suspicion” for cases of Diphtheria disease.…
China says COVID outbreak has infected 80 percent of population | Coronavirus pandemic News
Prominent scientist says Lunar New Year travel rush unlikely to lead to a surge in COVID cases as most people have already been infected. The…