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Summer is almost over, and within a month, the new flu vaccine will be available. Millions of people wait until it is too late to get the flu vaccine and then complain that they developed a ..

A new disease-tracking website suggests that mosquitoes may be moving into new ecological niches. The website is called ProMED mail. PromMED stands for the Program for Monitoring Emerging ..

A recent study reveals that the number of whooping cough cases in the State of Indiana have doubled in the past year. State health experts are urging parents to ensure that their children have ..

It appears that we have not heard the last of the Zika virus. Houston, America’s 4th largest city with a population of 4.5 million and with its warm humid climate may be the ideal place for this ..

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recently recommended that Americans who travel to areas of the world where there is active cholera should be vaccinated. There is now a ..

One of the largest outbreaks of measles in almost 3 decades has occurred in Minnesota. And the population that has mainly been affected are young children of Somali descent. The authorities ..

 The zika virus (ZIKV) and the dengue virus (DENV) cause terrible diseases, and new research shows they can interact with each other and amplify zika infection. The new lab study shows that ..

It was only a matter of time before Zika would appear in the USA. Over the past few weeks, new cases of Zika virus have been reported in Florida and now New York has taken a proactive approach to ..

One neighborhood in Miami has been confirmed as a source for at least 14 cases of locally transmitted Zika virus. This has promoted federal health officials to issue a travel warning for tourists ..

Zika virus (ZIKV) is a flavivirus that is responsible for an epidemic in Brazil and the Americas.   ZIKV has been causally linked with fetal microcephaly, other birth defects in humans, and ..