World Health Organization (WHO) officials are introducing new regulations to help in the fight against pandemics.

The new regulations, along with the experience in controlling severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), should ease the way for cooperation should there be an influenza pandemic, says Dr. David Heymann, executive director for communicable diseases at WHO

Hundreds of earthquake survivors living in camps in suffer from acute diarrhea, according to World Health Organization officials.

Doctors are investigating whether the outbreak has been caused by cholera

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So far, this year's epidemic across West Africa has sickened tens of thousands of people and killed about 800 amid heavy rains and subsequent flooding, particularly in Dakar, Senegal's capital

Public health officials express concern Tuesday about possible chemical contamination of waters flooding New Orleans, saying no one yet knows whether industrial leaks occurred.

Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt says a task force led by medical and environmental authorties are working to monitor for disease outbreaks, and will decide when New Orleans is safe to re-inhabit

A cholera outbreak in northeastern Nigeria kills 30 people.

The state government says medical teams have already started working to check the spreading of the bacterial infection of the intestine