Germany has reported total 2,373 deaths of COVID-19 infection on Friday morning as the confirmed cases have risen to 113,525, according to Robert Koch Institute, the country's disease control agency.
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Zika virus infection in pregnancy is "the most likely explanation" behind congenital brain abnormalities in babies including microcephaly, the World Health Organization says. Another study also describes the effect of Zika virus infection in the eyes of mouse fetuses, newborns and adults.
Staphylococcus is a bacteria that most commonly causes skin infections, but can be fatal for people with low immunity, such as newborns. So how can parents protect babies and rest of their family?
Five more women say their babies, delivered at a private hospital in Hong Kong, had the same potentially fatal bacterial infection as another baby discharged as healthy but later rushed to a different hospital for treatment. The cases occurred over an eight-day period.
The clinic explained what went wrong: a common yeast infection.
As Zika virus continues to spread in the Americas, the government and research organizations in Britain have all taken actions to tackle the potential health threat posed by the virus.
Six out of every 10,000 people in China may be infected with HIV/AIDS, according to official figures revealed on Monday, the eve of World AIDS Day.
Hong Kong's Center for Health Protection of the Department of Health on Wednesday urged citizens to stay alert against hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD) and enterovirus 71 (EV71) infection.