Global alert map: 9.3% of the earth is an outbreak hotspot; Latin America and Oceania have high disease risk and low health ...

The World Health Organization warned on Tuesday a major chikungunya virus epidemic risks sweeping around the globe, calling for urgent action to prevent it. The WHO said it was picking up exactly the ...

Epidemic-causing viruses are linked to a small number of bat families, not bats as a whole, improving outbreak prevention ...

The spread of disease is not routinely connected to climate change or the environment. However, ignoring this connection ...

Pinpointing an outbreak’s peak, the approach can boost health systems’ preparedness and risk communication. Image created with generative AI tools. During an epidemic, some of the most critical ...

To understand the virus’s re-emergence in America in 2025, some experts are looking to a past epidemic that had a high death rate in Philadelphia. By Gina Kolata Gina Kolata reported earlier this year ...

Dr. Jean Kaseya, Director General of Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention speaks at the Assembly of the African Union in Addis Ababa on February 18, 2024. Dr. Jean Kaseya, Director ...

Starting in the 1920s, people stricken with the most severe form of polio were placed in artificial respirators, called iron lungs, to keep them alive. Photo via the World Health Organization Doctors ...

When an outbreak of an infectious disease begins to spread, policymakers face an unenviable challenge. They must decide when to intervene and how forcefully, knowing that their choices carry both ...

When weird fungal epidemics crop up in far-flung places, scientists work together to unravel how the microscopic murderers show up and turn deadly. The Great Alaska Earthquake rocked Anchorage in 1964 ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has declared a new Ebola outbreak in Kasai Province. It's caused by the most severe strain: Zaire Ebola virus. This outbreak began with a 34-year-old ...

The Department of Health (DOH) on Tuesday said there is currently no outbreak or epidemic of influenza-like illnesses in (ILIs) in the National Capital Region. In a public hearing, DOH Secretary ...