Communicable diseases hamper the development of the poorest countries. This is the essence of a study conducted by The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) that highlights the lack of attention to such diseases, making them turn into epidemics. Complacency towards the possibility of epidemics is the crux of the study [...]

The latest outbreaks in several countries of the Influenza A (H1N1) virus, formerly known as swine flu, may just be the harbinger of an impending reality that disease is bound to be the century’s most daunting challenge. Malaria is also rampant in the world, as well as terrifying outbreaks of dengue fever that is said [...]

While the Influenza A (H1N1) virus, formerly known as swine flu, is the disease that is currently shaking the world in paranoia, even panic, there is an even far worse disease that is devastating some regions of the earth – dengue fever. Had dengue cases been more reported, it could have been labeled a pandemic [...]

The Argentine government has issued its latest confirmation on the number of dengue victims in the country: 10,594 cases. NGOs claim, however, that the number of people affected by the disease is much higher than what the government has disclosed as the disease has spread to urban centers such as Buenos Aires.
The Health Ministry in [...]