The poll found one in five over-65s either did not know what shingles was or were unaware the NHS offered a vaccine to ...

The infection, caused by the same virus that spreads chickenpox, results in a painful rash that can last days. The HSE took to social media to warm people about the early signs of shingles.

Durham Region Health Department has good news and bad news as we enter the long weekend. The good news is that despite the ...

The Durham Region Health Department says a total of six mosquito batches in the region have now tested positive for West Nile ...

The highest incidence of WNV infection in Canada has occurred in the southern Prairies during the hottest and usually driest period, from mid July to the end of September, when the mosquito species ...

Mosquitoes contract West Nile when they feed on an infected bird. Symptoms of the virus include fever, headache, body ache, nausea, vomiting, and rash on chest, stomach or back.

The CDC warned of increasing viral activity on the heels of “unusually high numbers of cases” in Europe earlier this year.

Marburg virus has only reached the US once before in 2008, when it was diagnosed in a woman who had returned from a two-week safari in Uganda. She was hospitalised but later made a full recovery.