Brazil is considering calling on Cuba to send doctors and has mobilized its military to join the nation's public health workers in battling a deadly outbreak of the mosquito-borne viral illness, dengue fever, which has killed 67 people and infected more than 45,000.

For the past few years, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil has been at the center of a resurgence of the disease in South America

A Southeast Valley man in his 60s was discharged Wednesday from a local hospital after being diagnosed with the nation's first case of West Nile Virus for 2008.

State health officials attribute to Arizona's warmer winters and earlier mosquito season for the West Nile Virus' premature occurrence

Following the Saturday warning of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency advised consumers that cantaloupes grown in Honduras are being recalled after salmonella outbreaks in North America.

Officials have cautioned the public not to eat melons from Agropecuaria Montelibano, a Honduran grower and packer. The melons may be contaminated with salmonella bacteria and appear to be related to salmonella litchfield reports in Canada and the US

The Nassau County Department of Health reported Saturday that a Long Island fast food worker had typhoid fever.The patient is a food handler at a Mama Sbarro's in Hicksville, New York. Officials warned those who ate at the restaurant between March 14 and March 16 may have some risk of exposure.

The restaurant has passed two surprise health inspections since Friday, which was when the county was informed about the food handler's condition

The fear of discovering a massive war syndrome among American troops returning from Iraq was the cause of Pentagon's postponement of routine brain screening among American soldiers for mild brain injuries.

Col. Kenneth Cox, head of Pentagon's medical assessment division, explained the Department of Defense delayed the conduct of brain screenings to steer clear of another potential Gulf War syndrome discovered among American soldiers in the 1990s. "Some individuals will seek diagnosis from provider to provider to provider," Cox told USA Today