The Kanazawa Municipal Government is calling for the public to stay alert over possible measles infections after a city resident who recently came back from India was diagnosed with the disease. According to the city government, the Kanazawa resident, a man in his 30s, flew ...
Government officials and scientists are moving to update countermeasures for a possible influenza pandemic after this winter's global spread of avian flu. Researchers plan to review the government's death toll estimate from a possible flu pandemic that was drawn up more than a decade ago ...
The number of patients suffering from respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections — mostly infants — has risen sharply in the country, the National Institute of Infectious Diseases has reported. In the week through Sept. 25, the institute received reports from some 3,000 pediatrics departments at ...
Nine people have contracted tuberculosis while 34 others have developed asymptomatic forms of the disease after coming into contact last year with an Asian student living in Tokyo, the metropolitan government has revealed. According to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's Social Welfare and Public Health Bureau, ...
The head of the World Health Organization has praised beleaguered South Korean officials and exhausted health workers, saying their efforts to contain a deadly MERS virus outbreak have put the country on good footing and lowered the public risk. Margaret Chan said it's a good ...
Health experts have said authorities were correct to intercept a Canadian journalist who subsequently tested negative for the Ebola virus and remains under observation. But the structure of Japan's health system remains a cause for concern. There are questions over its ability to respond quickly ...
Dengue fever cases rise to 74 as evidence emerges that the virus is no longer confined to the two parks so far linked to the rare outbreak.
The greatest danger the outbreak of dengue fever traced to Tokyo's Yoyogi Park poses to the homeless there may be the threat of eviction, not infection, advocates said Tuesday. The park is a hub for homeless people, many of whom take shelter inside makeshift blue ...
The avian influenza found in chickens in Kumamoto has been identified as the first case of the H5N8 strain in Japan.
Hand hygiene is the No. 1 contributor — and the most fixable — to the almost 2 million hospital-acquired infections each year that kill 100,000 people in the U.S.
