In 2025, Nigeria confronted multiple disease outbreaks, exposing persistent weaknesses in infectious-disease control, ...

No fewer than 1,738 deaths from cholera, Lassa fever, measles and diphtheria outbreaks were recorded nationwide in 2025, Saturday PUNCH gathered.This is according to official situation reports ...

Lassa fever remains one of Nigeria's most persistent public health challenges, exposing longstanding gaps in disease surveillance, infection control, and access to timely medical care.

Raccoon roundworm has now spread to nine European countries, raising the risk of human infection, according to a review and analysis by Goethe University researchers published in Parasitology Research ...

Today for the first time since October, Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection (CHP) is reporting three new H9N2 avian flu cases, all with symptom onset in November. The patients came from Guangdong ...

The report, which covers epidemiological week 49 of 2025, shows that 195 deaths have been recorded from 1,069 confirmed cases ...

The mass departure of local veterinary doctors is threatening the survival and sustainability of Ghana’s food systems, livestock value chain and weakening the fight against zoonotic diseases.Dr.

In a startling first, a Washington state man has been infected with a strain of bird flu previously only detected in animals. The “severely ill” man was hospitalized with a high fever, confusion and ...

The Grays Harbor County resident infected with bird flu this month has tested positive for a type of the virus never before detected in humans, state health officials confirmed Friday. The state ...

A Washington resident has been hospitalized with bird flu, according to the Washington State Health Department, and they’re infected with a strain of the virus that hasn’t been seen in humans before.