Cerebral malaria exacts a heavy toll, even if the child survives. Almost a third of cerebral malaria survivors developed epilepsy or other behavioral disorders, new research shows.

A South African civil engineer has become the third fatal victim of an outbreak of Lassa Fever in northern Sierra Leone, a health ministry official said Thursday.

Haiti’s cholera epidemic death toll rose to 442 on Wednesday, with 105 more deaths since Saturday and more than a 40 percent jump in new cases, officials said.

An international team of researchers said that the measures taken to tackle malaria may not meet its desired objective.

A new report in the Lancet

A new study has suggested that cutting surveillance for mosquito-borne diseases may lead to an increase in both the number of human cases and the health costs when a disease outbreak occurs.

Haiti’s cholera death toll rose above 300, as medical teams sought to contain an outbreak overwhelming the quake-hit nation’s crumbling hospitals with desperate patients.

Haiti reported 25 more cholera deaths as officials warned the epidemic was not yet over, and aid groups fought to keep the disease out of the capital’s teeming refugee camps.

Anopheles gambiae,the malaria-transmitting mosquito species, has begun to evolve into two separate species with different characteristics,which could pose a challenge to malaria control.

Cholera deaths in Haiti went above 250, but new infections and fatalities seem to be slowing down, which indicates the epidemic has been brought under control.

A cholera epidemic in northern Haiti has claimed 135 lives and infected 1,500 people, an official said Thursday amid concerns of a wider outbreak in the impoverished nation.