To Enjoy Relaxing and Calm Nautical Trip Hire a Catamaran
Holidays are necessary for everyone at least once a year to relax and spend some quality time with friends and family. If a trip to beach and sailing in the sea is one of your passion, then you will definitely look More...
8 Most Loved Hotels in Jamaica
An ideal Caribbean vacation deserves an excellent hotel to go with it. Jamaica is an island with no shortage of top hotels. In fact, some of the best options, value-wise can be found on the warm tropical island. More...
Chagas disease: 7 family members from Lábrea infected, Açaí consumption suspected
In a follow-up on a report from last week, the Health Surveillance Foundation (FVS-AM) now reports seven Chagas disease cases from the same family group in the southernmost municipality of Lábrea in Amazonas More...
Yellow fever updates for Brazil and Peru
In Brazil, since the beginning of the outbreak in December 2016 up to 20 April 2017, there were 2,900 cases of yellow fever reported, of which 681 were confirmed. This total includes 372 deaths (234 confirmed), More...
Dominican Republic reports more than 50 leptospirosis deaths in 2016
Dominican Republic health authorities have confirmed 51 leptospirosis related fatalities this year as the country reports higher than normal levels of the bacterial infection in 2016, according to a Acento report More...
Zika: Panama reports 4 microcephaly cases, 5th country to report according to PAHO
The Panamanian Health Ministry reported Wednesday four babies born with the birth defect, microcephaly, which are linked to Zika virus infection. Female Aedes aegypti mosquito Image/James Gathany According to a More...
Peru reports locally transmitted Zika infections
Just a month after Peruvian health officials reported a sexually transmitted case of Zika virus infection in Lima, The Ministry of Health (MoH) is reporting this week three indigenous cases. Image/CIA The cases, two More...
Zika news: Florida cases top 100, Louisiana prepares for possible outbreak
The Florida Department of Health reported three addition imported Zika virus cases today putting the total at 102, the most in the country. Image/CDC The new cases are reported from Miami-Dade County (40), Palm More...
Zika in Florida: 1st Martin County case, 6th pregnant woman
Florida health officials reported today that three additional travel associated Zika virus cases were reported, bringing the state total to 99. Martin County Florida mapImage/David Benbennick Martin County saw their More...
Travel Warnings Revised by US Government as Zika Virus Falters at Higher Elevation
According to reports, the Zika travel issues have been pacified to a larger extent with the government allowing pregnant women an open pass to Mexico City. This came as a surprise to some but US Govt. explains the More...
Guatemala: Locally acquired Zika virus infection confirmed
Following earlier reports on Outbreak News Today of local transmission of Zika virus in El Salvador, Mexico and Paraguay, the World Health Organization reports receiving notification of a laboratory-confirmed autochthonous More...
Zika confirmed in the Caribbean
The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) has confirmed at least five cases of infection with the mosquito borne virus, Zika virus, in the region of the Caribbean, although they did not specify which countries More...
Jamaica records second chikungunya case
Approximately a week after reporting their first chikungunya case, Jamaican health officials say they have confirmed the island’s second imported case of the mosquito borne virus. Currently, there has been More...
Dominican Republic chikungunya case count exceeds 250,000
Despite all the efforts the Dominican Republic Health Ministry have taken to get the chikungunya outbreak in the country under control, the number of cases continue to increase, and sometimes increase greatly, More...
Dengue fever in Brazil tops 640,000 cases, rises 120,000 in one week
The dengue fever capital of the world still appears to be Brazil as the South American country’s dengue fever epidemic continues to mount halfway through 2014. As you may recall, Brazil recorded a whopping More...
Puerto Rico declares chikungunya an epidemic, more than 200 cases reported
El Departamento de Salud in Puerto Rico has declared an epidemic of the chikungunya virus because it is new to the island, the population has no antibodies against it, and cases are concentrated in one region, More...
Dengue fever in Brazil tops 500,000, chikungunya in the Americas eclipse 350,000
The mosquito borne diseases, dengue fever and chikungunya, continue their climb in the Western hemisphere according to the latest data released by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) this week. Dengue fever More...
Paraguay reports first chikungunya case
The Paraguay Health Ministry has issued a public alert after the discovery of the country’s first imported chikungunya case, according to a Prensa Latina report (computer translated). Aedes aegyptiImage/CDC According More...
Dominican Republic steps up mosquito spraying in Santo Domingo as chikungunya numbers skyrocket
The Dominican Republic Ministry of Health says they will continue spraying and social mobilization against dengue and chikungunya in Greater Santo Domingo and various provinces as the numbers of the two mosquito More...
Mexicali reports nearly a dozen Rocky Mountain spotted fever deaths this year
The Department of Epidemiology at the Secretariat of Health in Mexicali, Baja California state, Mexico are reporting 11 fatalities from the tick borne disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF), during the first More...
