You are sleeping quite soundly when a sharp buzzing sound around your head wakes you up, forcing you to try to swat it away. Or else you...

Recent findings published in Emerging Infectious Diseases showed that the 2014-2015 Ebola outbreak indirectly increased the number of...

Three more people have died of cholera in the county, raising the death toll to eight since last week. County Public Health Officer Mabel...

WHO has launched a global Strategic Response Framework and Joint Operations Plan to guide the international response to the spread of...

Despite the decline in the HIV/AIDS new infection and deaths, a total of 58,000 babies are born annually with the AIDS virus in Nigeria...

WHO’s new International Scheme to Evaluate Household Water Treatment (HWT) Technologies ensures that products used to treat water in...

The World Health Organization on Monday declared that a surge in serious birth defects in South America was "strongly suspected" of being...

Zika virus is spread to people through mosquito bites. The most common symptoms of Zika virus disease are fever, rash, joint pain, and...

The Gauteng health department confirmed over the weekend that four cases of typhoid fever have been identified in Johannesburg, and that...

I "Snapshots" on 34 different health topics outline trends, achievements made, reasons for success, challenges and strategic priorities...