Health authorities in Uganda have declared the Ebola hemorrhagic fever outbreak in the country is over.

According to a World Health Organization statement Thursday, the last person in Uganda infected by the deadly virus was discharged from a hospital on Jan. 8. No incident of the disease occurred after that date or after 42 days, which is twice the maximum Ebola incubation period of 21 days

A group of vaccine experts with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) suggest using Rotarix, a GlaxoSmithKline PLC vaccine to stop a rotavirus, a common gastrointestinal disease that causes diarrhea in infants.

The U.S. panel voted 11 to 1 that the vaccine is safe for use in infants. The FDA was not obliged to follow the opinion of its panel though it usually does making Rotavirus near to final U.S. approval

More than 40 percent of drinking water in rural China is unfit for drinking, a health ministry study said Monday. The drinking water in the country's rural areas has failed to meet government standards leading to outbreaks of diarrhea and other diseases, a Ministry of Health spokesman said.

Xinhua quotes ministry spokesman Mao Qunan as saying, "The condition of drinking water in rural areas still has a long way to go to improve the health condition and living quality for rural people

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning consumers and seafood processors against consumption of fish after several cases of ciguatera fish poisoning (CFP) were reported in Washington, D.C. and St. Louis, Mo..

The toxic fish were harvested in the Northern Gulf of Mexico, near the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, which is located in federal waters south of the Texas-Louisiana coastline

A researcher in Nigeria says that simple hand washing can save lives in Africa and could reduce the incidence of diarrhea by up to 30 percent. That would place the value of hand washing as about equal to access to clean water in cutting diarrhea infections, the researcher said.

Researchers, led by Regina Ejemot of the University of Caliber, in Nigeria reviewed the results of 14 studies of hygiene promotion practices in institutions, community organizations and homes involving more than 8,000 people