Delays in CDC analyses of infectious disease threats and agency silence will harm Americans, doctors and ...

Sonya Stokes, an emergency room physician in the San Francisco Bay Area, braces herself for a daily deluge of patients sick ...

The World Health Organization declares when an outbreak of an infectious disease becomes a global pandemic, like COVID-19. It has not declared H5N1 a pandemic. While bird flu hasn’t been ...

Five years ago, the COVID-19 pandemic served as a wake-up call. Since then, health experts worldwide have sat on tenterhooks, ...

The WHO’s Global Framework provides a structured approach to investigating the origins of pandemic-causing pathogens. It ...

Avian influenza (AI) is a highly contagious viral disease affecting poultry and wild water birds, posing significant global challenges due to its high mortality rates and economic impacts. Highly ...

A second subtype of H5 bird flu, known as D1.1, was detected in dairy cattle and infected one worker in the US state of Nevada. Will it spread further among people?

A second type of the virus, D1.1, has been detected in dairy cattle in Nevada, US. A second type of bird flu H5N1 detected in ...

Abrupt changes to programmes including USAID inhibit global efforts to stop disease such as HIV, malaria and more, say ...

In the words of UNAIDS Asia Pacific Regional Director Eamonn Murphy, rising HIV infections in Fiji "put the entire Pacific ...

The World Health Organization (WHO ... the key eastern city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the risk of disease outbreaks, including cholera and Mpox, increases on the outskirts, ...