In #Florence, a Chinese Italian with a placard reading "I'm not a virus, I'm a human" at his side, met with enthusiastic hugs of passers-by. #ImNotVirus #ImHuman inspired Italians to support China's
02:54 Ban Ki-moon expressed support for China in a video released Thursday. The former Secretary-General of the United Nations expressed confidence in China's ability to contain the co
China is confident in and capable of effectively containing the novel coronavirus epidemic, and eventually defeating it, the National Health Commission said in a statement Friday. The remarks were m
00:17 A new hospital for fighting the novel coronavirus outbreak began construction in central China's Zhengzhou City on January 27. The hospital is expected to be comp
Central China's Hubei Province launched on Friday a level I emergency response – the highest level for a public health emergency – to combat the current coronavirus out
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TwoSwissathletesatthePyeongchangWinterOlympicsinSouthKoreahavebecomethefirstcompetitorstobehitbyanoutbreakofthenorovirus.Thefreestyleskiersweretakenawayfromther
Scientistshavepinpointedapopulationofvirus-infectedbats,whichtheyhavelinkedtothemysteriousoutbreakofSarsdisease15yearsago.Hundredsdiedasthevirusspreadaroundtheg
Scientistshavepinpointedapopulationofvirus-infectedbats,whichtheyhavelinkedtothemysteriousoutbreakofSarsdisease15yearsago.Hundredsdiedasthevirusspreadaroundtheg
SixteenpeoplehavediedinoneoftheworstHepatitisAoutbreaksintheUnitedStates,healthexpertssaidonTuesday.SixteenpeoplehavediedofthehighlycontagiousvirusinSanDiegoCou
South Africa has banned the sale of live hens throughout the country in a bid to contain an outbreak of the highly contagious H5N8 bird flu. According to Reuters, the government confirmed on Monday that no humans have been infected.
Acholeraoutbreakinwar-tornYemenhaskilled115peopleandleft8,500othersthoughttobeinfectedbythewater-bornediseaseashospitalsstruggletocopewithaninfluxofpatients,sai
TheWorldHealthOrganization(WHO)hasdeclaredanEbolaoutbreakintheDemocraticRepublicofCongo.Atleastonepersonhasdiedaftercontractingthevirusinthecountry'snorth-east,
South Korea is in the throes of a bird flu outbreak and for the first time has asked the United States to ship it shell eggs.
A fresh round of foot-and-mouth disease has broken out in 11 villages in the northern region of Ohangwena about 790 kilometres from Namibia's capital Windhoek.
An elderly Australian has died from the recent outbreak of Legionnaire's disease believed to have spread by a contaminated cooling tower in central Sydney.
The World Bank Group on Thursday announced that it has provided 150 million U.S. dollars to help countries in Latin America and the Caribbean to combat the Zika virus outbreak.The Washington-based global lender said in a statement that this funding, which is immediately available, is based on current country demands for financing and the bank "stands ready to increase its support" if additional financing is needed.