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Bermuda health experts are in close contact with an international body about the deadly coronavirus, the Government confirmed yesterday. A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Health said: “The Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit is in constant liaison wi...

Air arrivals are to be screened at the airport as a killer virus from China continued to spread, it was announced yesterday. The screening will include questions on areas travelled through in the previous 21 days and if the arrival had suffered any s...

People were warned to avoid the hospital’s emergency room unless it was a genuine health crisis as the island prepared itself for potential cases of a killer virus. Michael Ashton, the Bermuda Hospitals Board chief of medicine and infectious disease...

Bermuda braced itself yesterday for a potential public health emergency over a killer virus. The Ministry of Health said it had raised the threat level from the coronavirus from “guarded” to “elevated” and that its epidemiology and surveillance unit ...

Health authorities are monitoring the risk of a potential killer virus reaching Bermuda. The new strain of coronavirus, discovered in China, made headlines after it was reported in other Asian countries and the United States. A spokeswoman for the Mi...

Bermuda has been hit by a confirmed imported case of dengue this year, a government official said. The spokeswoman for the Ministry of Health added that there had been a further three suspected imported cases of the virus, but emphasised there was n...

Tourists are choosing Bermuda as a holiday destination over other Caribbean and South American locations because of the island’s Zika-free status. A handful of imported cases have been reported by the Department of Health on the island, but so far th...

Former Bermuda nurse Pauline Cafferkey, who contracted the Ebola virus while working in Sierra Leone in 2014, has been rushed to hospital for a fourth time. Ms Cafferkey, who worked at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital from September 2005 to Februar...

A primary school student has been infected with viral meningitis and is receiving medical care in Boston. The student, who attends Bermuda High School, has not been named and this newspaper has been given no further information as to the severity of...

A fourth case of travel-related Zika has been confirmed in Bermuda by the Ministry of Health and Seniors. The virus has been brought back to the island by someone who recently travelled to a Zika-affected country. The announcement stressed that so fa...

An international expert has backed up the Bermuda Government’s assertion that the island has a “low risk” of local Zika virus transmission. However, Jimmy Whitworth, Professor of International Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medic...

The likelihood of a spread of the Zika disease on the island may be low, but Vector Control is seeking the public’s help in making sure it stays low. Speaking to the Hamilton Rotary Club this week, Armell Thomas, programme manager of Port Health and ...