Oakville residents are being warned after a bat found in the Honeyvale Road and Swansea Drive area last week tested positive for rabies.The Halton Region Health Department confirmed the positive test result in a release, advising anyone who may have had contact with a bat in the area to seek help im...
The National Institutes of Health and Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz-Fiocruz (Fiocruz), a national scientific research organization linked to the Brazilian Ministry of Health, have begun a multi-country study to evaluate the magnitude of health risks that Zika virus infection poses to pregnant women and thei...
Hơn 200 bệnhNgày 25.8, Bộ Y tế Việt Nam phối hợp Bộ Y tế Indonesia tổ chức hội nghị quốc tế phòng chống bệnh lây truyền từ động vật sang người năm 2015, với sự tham dự của hàng trăm đại biểu từ các tổ chức quốc tế, ngành y tế các nước.Theo thông ...
Mr.Ngo Van Cu, the head of Department of Epidemiology, Department of Animal Health, said 60 ducks from a household in Dac Nhon village, Nhon Son commune, Ninh Son district died. According to the test results from the Regional Animal Health Office No.6, 3 of 5 samples from this farm were&nb...
A total of 9 confirmed cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD) was reported in the week to 10 May: the lowest weekly total this year. Guinea reported a total of 7 cases, Sierra Leone reported 2. For the first time since the beginning of the outbreak in Sierra Leone, the country reported zero co...
Assoc. Prof. Nguyen Duy Thinh from School of Biotechnology and Food Technology (formerly known as Institute of Biological and Food Technology), Hanoi University of Science and Technology, warned. More detail here [VN]
Another outbreak of Kysanur Forest Disease (KFD) or monkey fever may take a toll on the simian population in Wayanad district if the authorities fail to adopt preventive measures on time, a study says.The study was conducted following the recent KFD outbreak in bonnet macaques in the district by a t...
A six-month old Dillsburg-area, PA baby, who was bitten by a rat that was to be fed to the family’ssnakes in late December and died on New Year’s Day, was determined to have contracted rate-bite fever, according to Cumberland County Coroner Charley Hall Thursday. The child was taken...
DULUTH, MINNESOTA - After a rash of skunk sightings last weekend, authorities are warning of a distemper outbreak. Over the weekend several sick skunks were reported to Duluth police. Two of the skunks were euthanized. Authorities with the Humane Society suspect the skunks were infected&nb...