As clouds gather and humidity rises across west Africa, whose annual rains bring an uptick of deadly, malaria-carrying ...

The sudden dismantling of USAID -- the country's main foreign development arm -- is unravelling health care systems across Africa that were built from a complicated web of national health ministries, ...

In Nigeria — home to 30 percent of the world’s annual 600,000 malaria deaths — clinics that once served 300 people a day in the conflict-hit Borno state have abruptly shut down, Ibrahim and other laid ...

Recommendation of first chikungunya vaccine for persons as young as 12 years old expands access for US travelers to regions with outbreak or elevated risk of chikungunya. COPENHAGEN, Denmark, ...

Stressing the importance of the research, Ms Thomson noted that the Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever virus presents similar symptoms to malaria yet there are no good diagnostic tests. Thank you for ...

Mpox can be lethal, especially for children under five years old. The mortality rate for clade I is between 3% and 10%. The ...

A preliminary study traces an mpox outbreak in a group of Ivory Coast monkeys to the fire-footed squirrel, indicating the ...

Africa CDC and WHO have updated their joint Continental Response Plan for the mpox emergency as the disease continues to affect new areas.

The global outbreak of mpox in 2022–23 affected more than 100 ... have not had access to the vaccine that helped curtail the outbreak in the US, Europe and the UK. The vaccine—called Jynneos ...

The FDA has approved a new freeze-dried formulation of Jynneos (smallpox and mpox vaccine, live, non-replicating).