Health Alerts

Monkey fever, or Kyasanur Forest Disease, is a tick-borne haemorrhagic fever. 49 positive cases and two deaths have been reported in the state of Karnataka.…

Health officials are urging Philippine communities to adopt the 4S strategy to prevent dengue infection. 4S stands for: 1. Search and destroy breeding sites. 2…

The public health director has warned measles might be spreading through Quebec via community transmission. An infected person visited a school, a store, a…

Health officials stated the health emergency declaration will be in effect for 90 days. $42 million has been allocated for response actions, including mosquito…

In the first two months of 2024, Vietnam has recorded almost 70,000 people requiring rabies vaccination after animal bites, and 18 deaths from rabies have been…

Air travel in and out of Mexico City has been disrupted, with flights being grounded due to an eruption from Mexico’s most active volcano, ’Popo’. Volcanic ash…

Children are accounting for a majority of infections and deaths in the world’s worst mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) outbreak, which is accelerating at a…

Cambodia's health ministry has reported another human infection from H5N1 avian influenza in the Kamoot province in southern Cambodia. An investigation found…

Health officials identified the disease quickly, treated it successfully and believe the transmission was from the patient’s cat. All contacts were notified…

Travellers to Africa are being warned of an increased risk of dengue fever as many countries are reporting higher than usual dengue fever cases.

Health officials have declared an ‘extraordinary event’ in East Java, with 11 people contracting measles. Indonesia had been declared free of measles a decade…

There is a continuing travel notice alert for the Americas region, where 80% of the world’s dengue cases are reported. So far in 2024, more than 670,000 cases…