Portuguese authorities confirmed Wednesday five cases of the Zika virus have been diagnosed, according to the National Health Institute Doctor Ricardo Jorge (INSA).
At least 33 people were killed in an outbreak of H1N1 in Iran over the past three weeks, an Iranian health official said here on Monday.
Hong Kong's Agriculture, Fisheries & Conservation Department conducted on Tuesday an exercise to review its preparedness for an avian flu outbreak.
The Nigerian government on Thursday alerted the people living in the country to be vigilant and embrace basic hygiene as Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) re-emerges in Liberia.
More than 11,000 Sydney dental patients may have been exposed to HIV and hepatitis because of unhygienic practices at four clinics across the city.
The Australian share market opened slightly stronger on Friday after declining 4.7 percent in the four sessions to Thursday.
Nigeria would soon deploy 506 volunteer health workers to Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, the three Ebola-stricken West African countries, to help control the spread of the deadly disease, a top government health official said on Thursday.
A hospital in Texas where an Ebola patient died and two nurses were infected apologized Thursday for mishandling the deadly disease, as the National Institutes of Health (NIH) prepared to treat the first nurse who contracted the virus while caring for the deceased.
Health ministers of 10 ASEAN members gathered in Vietnam's capital Hanoi on Thursday to discuss heath issues in the bloc on the occasion of the 12th ASEAN Health Ministers Meeting (AHMM 12).
New dada from the New York City Health Department show that, from 2010 to 2013, drug overdose deaths in the metropolis increased by 41 percent -- from 8.2 to 11.6 per 100,000 New Yorkers.
Nigerian tests negative for Ebola in Hong Kong
A 73-year-old woman, who died of respiratory failure on Dec. 6, was later confirmed to have been carrying the H10N8 virus by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, according to a statement issued by the emergency response office of the provincial health department.
Donor organs are to be distributed through a nation-wide system after a new ruling by the government.
The week-long International Health Qigong Tournament and Exchange, sponsored by the International Health Qigong Federation (IHQF), is held for the first time in New York City and New Jersey in the United States. It becomes the largest event ever hosted by the IHQF.
At least 235 people were killed and over 2,000 injured in clashes across Egypt after the police started at dawn to disperse supporters of deposed President Mohamed Morsi at two major sit-in sites, a Health Ministry official told Xinhua Wednesday evening.
Nearly one in nine adult New Yorkers have now been diagnosed with diabetes, an all-time high, according to data released Thursday by the city's Health Department.
Singapore has an average life expectancy at birth of 82, making it a joint fourth with Italy on a latest World Health Organization ranking, local daily Straits Times reported on Monday.
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