The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is grappling with one of its worst cholera outbreaks in recent history, exposing deep systemic cracks in public health, water infrastructure, and humanitarian ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is wrestling with a deepening health crisis as a cholera outbreak hit an “acute ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has validated Senegal as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem. Senegal ...

Over 14 million infants missed all vaccines in 2024, WHO and UNICEF warn. Global childhood immunisation rates have stalled, ...

As record wildfires erupt across Canada this year, with health-threatening smoke drifting into the U.S. and as far away as ...

Dhaka, the overcrowded capital city of Bangladesh, has ranked 15th on the list of cities with the worst air quality, with an ...

Septicemic plague occurs if bubonic plague is left untreated, or it can occur directly if the disease enters the bloodstream.

An estimated 14.3 million children globally remain unvaccinated and vulnerable to vaccine-preventable illnesses – meaning ...

A mummy in Egypt has yielded a shocking discovery: the DNA of the plague bacterium Yersinia pestis—thousands of years before ...

The WHO and UNICEF have warned that widespread misinformation and severe international aid cuts are widening coverage gaps, ...

The patient had the pneumonic plague, the rarest and deadliest form of the disease. Human cases remain very uncommon in the ...