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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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

The vaccine roll-outs seem to have had an impressive impact, reducing deaths by nearly 60%. The number of overall cases of ...

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

During the 2014 Ebola outbreak, containment became a central theme of how Liberians referenced Ebola abroad. Successful public health measures rely on cooperation.

During the 2014 Ebola outbreak, containment became a central theme of how Liberians referenced Ebola abroad. Successful public health measures rely on cooperation.

A serious outbreak of mpox (formerly monkeypox) in Africa has been declared by the Who as a public health emergency of international concern.

In 2014, a different group of scientists used human and animal data to map locations most at risk of an Ebola outbreak. Among countries that had never reported an Ebola spillover before, Nigeria ...

Returning to the starting point of the world’s worst Ebola outbreak reveals how the global community failed the people of Meliandou, Guinea — and the many ways we’re not doing enough to ...

No new Ebola infections have been detected in Uganda for 42 days, and so on Wednesday, the World Health Organization and the Ugandan Ministry of Health officially declared that the country’s ...