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According to KU Leuven epidemiologist Annemie Vandamme, the current measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus in Belgium will have to be extended long past 5 April.
Belgium is experiencing a measles outbreak, especially in Wallonia, write various Belgian media.
The Ebola virus in West Africa is evolving more slowly than expected, a development that bodes well for the effect of a new vaccine that will soon be used.
Type 2 diabetes, often referred to as adult-onset diabetes, is on the rise in Belgium, especially among people in their 20s and 30s, an increase that goes hand in hand with the obesity epidemic, r
Belgium is just this side of a full-on flu epidemic, according to the Scientific Institute for Public Health (WIV).
So far there have been few cases of the flu in Belgium or the Netherlands, but according to the annual Grote Griepmeting (Great Influenza Survey), the countries could be in for a heavier
The Belgian emergency team B-Fast is preparing to depart for Guinea with a mobile laboratory to aid in the fight against Ebola, announced Secretary of Defence Steven Vandeput (N-VA).
US ambassador to the UN Samantha Power was in Brussels yesterday to meet development cooperation minister Alexander De Croo, health minister Maggie De Block and the newly appointed Ebola coordinat
The pharmaceutical division of multinational Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has put up €200 million for its Belgian subsidiary Janssen Pharmaceutica to speed up production of a vaccine against th
