Brazilians are lining up at health centers and medical facilities in the wake of a yellow fever scare. The ailment, an acute viral disease, claimed a third victim from the southern city of Maringa.

According to municipal health officers, 46-year old Almir Rodrigues da Cunha died Wednesday. He may have acquired the ailment after a visit to Caldas Novas, a town in Goias state, where he stayed for the Christmas break

The seemingly ordinary sea cucumber could produce a drug that impairs the development of malaria, a disease that kills one million people each year.

An international team genetically engineered mosquitoes - which carry the malaria parasite - to produce the same protein in the gut of sea cucumbers when feeding

The viral hemorrhagic disease called the Rift Valley Fever (RVF) claimed 12 more lives, bringing the death toll in three eastern Sudan states to 96. At least 329 cases of RVF have been confirmed this week, up from 228 cases reported a week ago, the World Health Organization says.

The outbreak has so far been confined largely to the states of White Nile, Sinnar and Gezira

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are using radiation science to create weakened, harmless versions of a parasite to create a new type of vaccine that shows promise of being more effective than current malaria vaccines.

The new vaccine is a departure from previous approaches, which have usually depended on proteins derived from only part of the parasite Plasmodium falciparum, the most dangerous species of parasite that causes malaria

Alarmed by the reported 500,000 dengue related cases in Brazil, the Argentine government on Thursday launched an intensive campaign against dengue to prevent the outbreak of the disease in the region.

Health Minister Gines Gonzales raised the urgent call for people to become aware of dengue, especially those living in the northern Argentine high-risk zones in the provinces of Formosa, Corrientes, Misiones, Chaco, Salta and Jujuy Tucuman