Access to clean water and good sanitation is crucial to staying healthy and well. The fact that contaminated water and poor sanitation could help spread diseases like cholera was not understood in the ...

During the 19th century, the idea that the individual was responsible for their own health was widely accepted. Under this approach, politicians believed that the state only had limited ...

Disease killed 6 percent of the city's population and a fire that started on the landing destroyed 15 blocks that disastrous ...

Muslims in Mecca are marking the Day of Arafah which is the most sacred day in the Islamic calendar with millions having ...

Some towns wear their history lightly, like a comfortable sweater, while others carry it like chains that rattle in the night. Mineral Point, Wisconsin, definitely falls into the latter category, and ...

With around 600 suspected cases and at least 130 deaths, the new Ebola outbreak in the Central African country of Congo has been declared a public health emergency of international concern by the ...

The Ebola outbreak erupting from the Ituri province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo continues to escalate wildly, with cases nearing 750, deaths reported at 177, and around 1,400 contacts now ...

An Ebola epidemic in Central Africa has been declared a "public health emergency of international concern" by the World Health Organization (WHO). As of May 22, over 800 Ebola cases have been reported ...

The outbreak started in a small village near the border of South Sudan. The village, like many in the Democratic Republic of Congo, was a mining town — transient workers coming in and out, traveling ...

Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield said Wednesday he suspects the spreading Ebola outbreak in Africa will spread across three new countries and become a ...

The World Health Organization has declared that an outbreak of Ebola in Central Africa is a public health emergency. Health officials are racing to trace contacts as the count of suspected cases rises ...

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the World Health Organization’s director general, said the outbreak in central Africa was “not a pandemic emergency.” By Lynsey Chutel Nick Cumming-Bruce and Ephrat Livni ...