Fifteen children from indigenous communities have died in the northern state of La Guajira this year due to extreme drought and unsanitary conditions, local media reported on Friday.
The first Colombian case of a mosquito-transmitted virus called Chikungunya was reported last week in the southwestern city of Cali, local media reports.
A bat researcher at one of Colombia’s top universities has called into question reports of foreign backpackers allegedly having been bitten by vampire bats, in an interview with Colombia Reports.
The smuggling of cattle from Venezuela poses the risk of an outbreak of hoof-and-mouth disease in Colombia, according to the country’s agriculture minister. “A lot of contraband cattle is entering…
Colombian authorities warned of a potential skin disease outbreak Thursday after seven cases of Leishmaniasis were reported in the southcentral city of Neiva. The Colombian Secretary of Health, Mauricio Santa…
One person has skin lesions and 16 animals have died in an anthrax outbreak in northern Colombia, near the Venezuelan border. A notification on the website for the World Organization…
Colombia’s National Health Institute dismissed Monday any link between the E. coli bacteria found in Colombia and the strain that has thus far caused 35 deaths in Europe. The director…
A new book to be released by a former FARC hostage claims that the HIV virus is spreading through the guerrilla group, revealed a chapter excerpted Sunday in El Espectador. Sergeant…
So far this year Colombia has recorded almost 78,000 cases of dengue fever throughout the country, with 93 deaths from the disease, Semana reported Thursday. According to Colombia’s National Health…