In April of that year, patients started appearing at hospitals in the industrial city of Sverdlovsk, now known as ...

Many people in the United States receive little or no information about flood risk when they move into a new home or ...

An interactive map and tool Johns Hopkins University (JHU) lets you track measles cases as the US has its worst year in ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has drawn attention to the far-reaching social implications of emerging infectious diseases, bringing to mind similarly impactful events like the Black Plague in early modern ...

IDPH officials said Friday that no new measles cases have been identified in Illinois since May 22. Two incubation periods ...

At least one person has died and 134 have been infected from an outbreak of salmonella linked to a recall of more than 20 ...

Emergency vaccination efforts during deadly disease outbreaks have reduced death rates by nearly 60% over the past 25 years, according to a major new global study. The research, supported by the Gavi ...

The US Department of Health and Human Services is weighing whether to fund new Marburg and Sudan Ebola virus vaccines even as Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. overhauls the US immunization landscape, ...

Ebola outbreak in Uganda: how worried are researchers? The outbreak has already spread to five districts, and there are no proven vaccines for this species of the virus.

Emergency vaccination programmes – rolled out in response to outbreaks of five major diseases – are believed to have reduced deaths by around 60% over a period of 23 years, according to a new study, ...

North Carolina, New Mexico and Texas have all suffered deadly floods in the last week after intense rain storms. Climate ...