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Deadly dengue epidemic declared in region of Peru

The World Health Organisation has declared a dengue epidemic in Peru's northwestern region of Piura after the local death toll reached 19.

16/05/2017

USA

Epidemic: US heroin deaths quadruple in five years

The US is facing an opioid epidemic and fatal overdoses of heroin have more than quadrupled in five years ending 2015

24/02/2017

France

France culls a million ducks and geese

The aim is to contain a severe outbreak of bird flu, which has been spreading rapidly over the past month.

05/01/2017

World News

No more AIDS by 2030?

Being diagnosed with HIV today means something very different than it did 20 or 30 years ago.

30/11/2016

World News

Risk of bird flu rockets in parts of Europe

France has raised the level of alert about an outbreak of the disease from "negligeable" to "heightened" in some regions.

17/11/2016

USA

Zika spraying goes ahead in Miami despite protests over insecticide-use

Planes have completed an aerial spraying for mosquitoes carrying Zika in Miami, despite protests over the insecticide’s possible harmful effects.

09/09/2016

USA

Pregnant women warned against Miami travel as more Zika cases detected

Pregnant women are being warned not to travel to Miami in Florida after another 10 Zika cases were identified.

02/08/2016

Spain

Spain says Europe's first Zika microcephaly birth confirmed in Catalonia

Europe’s first Zika microcephaly birth has been confirmed in Spain.

25/07/2016

Angola

Angola yellow fever outbreak spreads

The number of deaths from a yellow fever outbreak in Angola has risen to 225 with at least another 1,600 infected. However experts fear the numbers

06/04/2016

USA

US health officials warn of mass Zika virus infections in Puerto Rico

There is concern that hundreds of thousands of people on the US island territory of Puerto Rico could become infected with the Zika virus this year

01/04/2016

World News

Mosquitoes the world’s deadliest animal (after man, of course)

19/02/2016

World News

Zika link to microcephaly may be weeks away, says WHO

The World Health Organization (WHO) says a suspected link between the mosquito-borne Zika virus and microcephaly in newborn babies should be

12/02/2016

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Combating the spread of Zika

Efforts are being stepped up across the Americas, including in Panama, Uruguay, Peru and Honduras, to help fight the rapid spread of the

06/02/2016

World

Scientists confront pharmaceutical puzzle in the hunt for a Zika vaccine

On Monday, and for the first time since the recent Ebola crisis, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared a global health emergency in response

04/02/2016

World News

WHO declares global emergency over condition connected to Zika

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a global emergency over a condition linked to the Zika virus. A connection has been made been the

01/02/2016

Brazil

Race to find vaccine, as mosquito-born Zika virus grips Americas

The race is on to find a vaccine, as the mosquito-born Zika virus takes hold in the Americas. It is being linked to severe birth defects. Around

29/01/2016

World News

"Explosive" risk of baby-crippling Zika virus spreading says WHO

The World Health Organisation is sounding the alarm, belatedly say its critics, about what it says is an “explosive” threat of the incurable Zika

29/01/2016

World News

Zika: WHO sounds the global alarm over disease

Disease linked with birth defects and has "explosive pandemic potential"

28/01/2016

World News

Ukraine in the grip of deadly flu epidemic

Three strains of the virus are involved, including swine flu

27/01/2016

Denmark

Hospital in Denmark confirms Zika case - patient recovering

A Danish man has tested positive for the mosquito-transmitted Zika virus, but is expected to recover soon, health officials said. The man, who is in

27/01/2016