The list of 24 pathogen families is also the first to consider global health threats, as well as threats specific to the UK ...

The viruses that pose the biggest risk to public health have been revealed. Among the viral pathogen families classed as high ...

Critics of the Trump administration’s early actions on global health—withdrawing from the World Health Organization (WHO) and ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nicholas Kristof warns that Americans will be less safe under the Trump administration’s ...

Uganda's Ministry of Health together with its partners, the World Health Organization (WHO) Country Office and, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), have in recent weeks ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's (D-NY) terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week isn't over yet -- Democrats are still furious with him.

Five years after COVID-19 reached pandemic status, public health experts reflect on what we learned—and how those lessons can ...

Measles is one of the most contagious infectious diseases known to science - more contagious than Ebola, smallpox or COVID-19. Declining vaccination rates over the past few years, plus a recent ...

According to a new study, an experiment on monkeys has shown that Ebola can be cured with just a pill. First discovered in ...

New research this month shows that the experimental antiviral obeldesivir prevented up to 100% of deaths in monkeys infected ...

As well as protecting the monkeys from death, the treatment also evoked an immune response. Senior author Dr Thomas Geisbert ...