In her new book, A History of the World in Six Plagues, Edna Bonhomme describes a 2014 epidemic that decimated a neighborhood ...

The foreign aid program has been one of the country's best defenses against emerging infectious diseases. Without it, we are ...

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

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Caribbean leaders this week rejected U.S. accusations of Cuban labor exploitation after the United States announced it will ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Monday that 83 percent of the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) ...

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The man’s case didn’t give rise to any widespread variant, but it gave Gupta, with his HIV evolution background, the idea ...

During the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak, Guinea was one of the worst impacted countries and saw more than 2,543 deaths. A week before the alarm was raised in the rural area of Gouéké in N’Zerekore ...

Aid cuts by the United States are hurting Africa’s capacity to respond to disease outbreaks, the head of the continent's public health agency said Thursday, ahead of a meeting with regional health ...