Disease

News Hour: Belgian health authorities said they confirmed a case of bird flu in southern Belgium concerning the highly contagious H5N8 virus and established a 3-kilometer perimeter around the area where the transport of birds and...

News Hour: More than 5.6 million children are at increased risk of contracting waterborne diseases, such as cholera and diarrheal infections, as the rainy season begins in conflict-affected areas of countries around Lake Chad, UNICEF warned...

News Hour: Fifteen new cases of polio have been confirmed in Syria, including a child who may have caught the disease in Raqqa, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday. Aid workers are unable to vaccinate...

News Hour: Cool, high-lying areas of Ethiopia hitherto shielded from heat-loving malaria mosquitoes are increasingly exposed to the disease as the climate warms, researchers said on Thursday. Most Ethiopians live in the country’s highlands, and have...

News Hour: India’s diabetes epidemic is shifting, with the disease now increasingly common among people from low socio-economic backgrounds living in urban areas of the more affluent states, according to a study published in The Lancet...

News Hour: A polio outbreak has been confirmed in an area of Syria partly held by Islamic State, the first re-emergence of the virus in Syria since 2014, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative and the World...

News Hour: Singapore on Friday confirmed two cases of locally transmitted infections of the mosquito-borne Zika virus, bringing the total number of reported cases in the city-state this year to eight. The viral disease carried by...

News Hour: The number of suspected cholera cases in Yemen continues to rise, reaching 101,820 with 791 deaths as of 7 June 2017. Worst affected are the country’s most vulnerable: children under the age of 15...

News Hour: France last month detected a case of low-pathogenic H7 bird flu at a farm in the center of the country, a report from the French agriculture ministry showed. H7 is a less severe form...

News Hour: A cholera epidemic in Yemen has killed at least 681 people and the outbreak has yet to peak, according to World Health Organization (WHO) figures showing an increase in the death toll of nearly...