#DISEASE

When Spanish conquistadors arrived in the New World some five centuries ago, they brought muskets, cannons, armor, horses and attack dogs as they set about colonizing the Americas. But the ...

Travellers should avoid bringing plants, seeds and plant products into Cyprus, as they could introduce harmful pests and diseases that threaten the island’s environment and agriculture, the agriculture department ...

Workers cutting engineered stone have increasingly been taking sick leave for skin disease and respiratory problems, however there is not enough data in Cyprus to link inhaling the fine dust ...

Spain has alerted the World Health Organisation of what it believes to be a person-to-person transmission of the swine flu virus in its A(H1N1)v variant, a spokesperson ...

A case of foot-and-mouth disease has been confirmed within the government-controlled areas of Cyprus, after veterinary authorities on Friday detected the disease at a cow-breeding unit in Livadia, in the ...

By Robert Morgan Around 1,400 Cypriot patients are estimated to have haemoglobin disorders, the International Thalassemia Federation (ITF) said on Wednesday. In a statement released to coincide with World Thalassemia Day, ...

People do not need to worry about catching bird flu as doing so is extremely rare, a state expert said on Monday after two incidents of the disease were found ...

In the hours before her six-year-old son died in her lap, Badar Bibi recalled how she rushed from a field clinic set up to treat people caught in Pakistan’s ...

Efforts are underway to inaugurate a unit dedicated to combating deadly diseases as there are fears that the healthcare system is not yet prepared for to handle the outbreak of ...