The Georgian authorities advised residents to remain indoors until all the wild animals escaped from the zoo have been accounted for.

The mosquito-borne Zika virus, also referred to as ZIKV, has now reached the Caribbean, with a 12-year-old girl in the Dominican Republic becoming the first person to contract the virus. The zika virus is transmitted by the bite of an infected Aedes aegypti mosquito, the same mosquito that transmits chikungunya …

A steady decline in Ebola cases has stopped and the numbers are ticking up again in Guinea and Sierra Leone for the second consecutive week. It is not entirely clear where some of the new cases have come from.