Japan discovered a suspected case of foot-and-mouth disease in a cow in its southern prefecture of Miyazaki, just days after it lifted a state of emergency, an official said.

Five people have died and over 100 have been infected in an outbreak of the West Nile virus in Volgograd, central Russia, where two million people are

Malaysian health officials announced plans Monday to tackle an outbreak of the rat-borne disease leptospirosis that has killed 10 people, forcing several parks to close.

Health officials are struggling to contain a major outbreak of anthrax in northern Bangladesh, with at least 52 new infections registered in the past week, the health ministry said Monday.

A virus that occurs naturally in mosquitoes could behave like a “late-life-acting” insecticide and destroy older adult mosquitoes that have a big role to play in malaria transmission.

The cholera epidemic in Bauchi, Nigeria’s northern state has claimed more casualties with the number rising from 47 to 67 in the past one week, health officials have stated.

The West Nile virus has claimed three casualties in Greece this month, and the health ministry has declared an all-out effort to fight against it.

Some

87 people have died in Nigeria because of a cholera outbreak and 1,315 others have been infected, official figures report.

The outbreak in the northern

The death of a 29-year-old woman from pneumonic plague has brought the number of plague victims in Peru to three in two months, the health ministry said.

Heavy rains and fighting have caused an increase in the number of victims falling prey to the deadly kala azar and the death toll has risen to 31 in the last two months.