A new study shows chicken pox is slowly being eliminated as more and more children - some 90 percent in the U.S. - are receiving a preventive vaccine

Since the disease resurfaced this year, health workers in Indonesia have found 205 children infected with polio; two of those cases are in the heavily populated capital of Jakarta.

The water-borne disease, which can cause irreversible paralysis within hours, resurfaced in May in the world's fourth most populous country, which had been free of the disease since 1995

Avian flu claims the life of a 35-year-old man in southern Vietnam as health officials begin a mass vaccination of poultry to stem the virus' spread.

The Associated Press reports Ben Tre, from the southern Mekong Delta province, died on July 31. He tested positive for the H5N1 flu virus on Saturday, says Phan Van Tu, chief virologist at the Pasteur Institute in Ho Chi Minh City

A new study suggests that some people infected by the monkeypox outbreak in 2003 were protected by previous smallpox vaccinations. This finding could prove beneficial in the event of a bioterrorism attack, researchers say.

The monkeypox outbreak made 72 people ill in several Midwestern states, but did not cause any fatalities

The government is ready to move ahead with mass production of a new vaccine that scientists believe can protect against an avian flu outbreak.

Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease says Sunday that production on a U.S. vaccine stockpile could begin as early as mid-September, according to The Associated Press