Health
Girl falls victim to rare Australian case of deadly snakebite
A young girl has died in Australia after being bitten by a feared brown snake, officials said on Monday, a rare fatality ...First U.S. Zika virus transmission reported, attributed to sex
The first known case of Zika virus transmission in the United States was reported in Texas on Tuesday by local health officials, ...WHO declares global health emergency over Zika situation
The World Health Organization on Monday declared that a surge in serious birth defects in South America was "strongly suspected" of being ...Birth defects in Latin America spark Zika virus panic
Alarm over thousands of birth defects blamed on the mosquito-borne Zika virus spread Friday, as the United States expanded a travel warning ...WHO confirms second new Ebola case in Sierra Leone
A new case of Ebola has been confirmed in Sierra Leone, officials said Thursday, the second since west Africa celebrated the end ...U.N. seeks $1.3 billion in humanitarian funding for South Sudan
The United Nations is seeking $1.3 billion in humanitarian aid for South Sudan, where two in ten of the population have been ...French drug trial volunteer dies
A man left brain dead after a drug trial in northwest France died on Sunday, said the hospital where he was being ...New Ebola death in Sierra Leone as WHO says epidemic over
Tropical disease experts in Sierra Leone scrambled Friday to investigate a new suspected death from Ebola announced just hours after west Africa ...EU Parliament delays vote on new car pollution limits
The European Parliament on Thursday postponed a vote on new car pollution limits that could have killed a compromise agreed by EU ...WHO declares Ebola outbreak over
The world breathed a sigh of relief Thursday as a two-year Ebola epidemic that killed 11,000 and triggered a global health alert ...





