#DISEASE

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 ...