Pakistan is facing a disaster within a disaster as diseases spread rapidly and deaths mount following widespread deadly flooding - a crisis worsened by the country's weak health system and lack of ...

Contagious diseases like measles, COVID-19, influenza, norovirus, and tuberculosis pose significant global health challenges.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, around 5% of people infected end up developing a severe case of ...

The World Health Organization considers measles eliminated until it has spread unchecked for a year. Canada is set to be the ...

The World Health Organization has announced a new tangle of worrying trends for the viral infection mpox: Cases are on the ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) will on Thursday launch a plan to combat 20 diseases that affect the world's poorest people, seeking to prevent recent progress being erased by the impact of ...

America's withdrawal from the World Health Organization is affecting the ability of U.S. scientists to track flu and other ...

THURSDAY, Oct. 30, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Canada may lose its measles elimination status amid a yearlong outbreak that has ...

While the reported numbers for the largest Ebola outbreak in history are already pretty grim, according to the W.H.O., the true scope of the outbreak is actually much, much worse. As we noted earlier ...

Dead birds infected with bird flu were discovered on a Long Island beach in February, 2025. Public health experts applaud the inventiveness but worry the tracking efforts such as this will not be fast ...

To protect the people of Massachusetts from deadly bird flu in the U.S., the state’s health director, Robert Goldstein, is relying on an artificial intelligence platform that reads newspapers for ...

On 20 May, 2025, the Member States of the World Health Organization (WHO) formally adopted the first Pandemic Agreement.