Aid cuts by the United States are hurting Africa’s capacity to respond to disease outbreaks, the head of the continent’s ...

With California’s robust investment and experience in animal disease surveillance and detection, there’s little disagreement in agricultural circles that the state was well prepared for bird flu.

U.S.-funded organizations helped keep dangerous pathogens in check around the world. Now many safeguards are gone, and ...

Six years ago, two communities in New York – one in Brooklyn and one in Rockland County – were facing the worst measles outbreaks the United States had seen in decades. It was the closest the nation ...

Unwillingness ;of African countries to share data among themselves is hindering disease outbreak response, ;New Vision Online ;has learnt. ; ;The revelations came to light during a three-day ;project ...

A worsening measles outbreak in West Texas has spread to two other states, providing Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. his first real test of responding to a major ...

Gutting USAID is already having a devastating impact around the world. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, teams that ...

On Thursday, health officials in New Mexico reported a second death in a person with measles. The case was in an unvaccinated ...

Six weeks after Rwanda-backed rebels captured the eastern Congolese cities of Goma and Bukavu, the region is facing a setback ...

Research from the University of Queensland has found the sex of feral pigs and seasonal conditions are likely to intensify potential disease outbreaks in pig populations. The work is published in the ...

As a deadly measles outbreak spread across Texas ... to track and contain the highly contagious disease, according to two people close to the response effort granted anonymity to describe a ...

A 4-year-old child became the second person to die of Ebola in Uganda, the World Health Organization said Saturday, in a ...