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Novel Coronavirus – Republic of Korea (ex-China) January 21, 2020
On 20 January 2020, National IHR Focal Point (NFP) for Republic of Korea reported the first case of novel coronavirus in the Republic of Korea. The case is a 35-year-old female, Chinese national, residing in Wuhan, Hubei province in China. The case-patient had developed fever, chill, and muscle pain on 18 January while in Wuhan. […]
Novel Coronavirus – Japan (ex-China) January 17, 2020
On 15 January 2020, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan (MHLW) reported an imported case of laboratory-confirmed 2019-novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) from Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. The case-patient is male, between the age of 30-39 years, living in Japan.
Novel Coronavirus – Japan (ex-China) January 16, 2020
The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, today informed the World Health Organization (WHO) of a confirmed case of a novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in a person who travelled to Wuhan, China. This is the second confirmed case of 2019-nCoV that has been detected outside of China, following confirmation of a case in Thailand on […]
Ebola virus disease – Democratic Republic of the Congo January 16, 2020
Fourteen new confirmed cases were reported from 8 to 14 January in the ongoing Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Archived Zika virus classification tables June 29, 2017
WHO: Zika virus classification tables
Zika virus classification table April 13, 2017
Zika situation report March 10, 2017
Zika: Then, now, and tomorrow February 9, 2017
They are tiny animals that live near or inside human dwellings where contact with people is high. Every few days, they lay 100-150 eggs which develop into adults in about a week. They are mosquitoes. The adult females feed on people’s blood, several times during the day.

CD4 T cells are not to be blamed for pushing dengue fever from bad to worse December 26, 2019
No one knows what makes a mild dengue viral infection morph into a severe and sometimes deadly dengue hemorrhagic fever/dengue shock syndrome.
Study reports way to predict dengue transmission globally December 6, 2019
A new study published in the journal PLOS ONE reports a model that is based on air travel, using the number of passengers flowing between international airports to predict how many of the air travellers arriving at any of these airports will have dengue, in a month.
New compound may enhance dengue vaccine efficacy by simulating amino acid deficiency November 27, 2019
A new study published in the journal Science Signaling on November 26, 2019, describes a mouse experiment, in which the immune response to the dengue vaccine was boosted when the mice were first given halofuginone, a plant compound that is well known to herbalists.
New highly sensitive test for dengue virus developed using DNA star November 25, 2019
Researchers have developed a new method for detecting and destroying the dengue virus that could be adapted for other viruses.