The World Health Organization (WHO) congratulates Guinea for eliminating the gambiense form of human African trypanosomiasis as a public health problem. This form of human African trypanosomiasis, the ...

A report from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control and the European Food Safety Authority highlights the burden of zoonotic diseases in Europe. Sanjeet Bagcchi reports.

William Schaffner: The most important thing is good hand hygiene. Washing with soap and water works the best. Those hand ...

The WA Health Department has confirmed a startling link between rising rates of a parasitic stomach bug and overseas travel, with the majority of new cases in Western Australia traced to Indonesia.

Ms Badolé suffers from loiasis, a chronic filarial disease caused by the Loa loa parasite, also known as the African eye worm ...