When I first spoke to Yap Boum II in January, 2025, he had recently become Deputy Incident Manager for the continental response to mpox with the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention ...

The Gavi vaccine alliance has for decades protected Americans from health threats abroad, writes ex-CEO Seth Berkley.

Six years before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, an Ebola outbreak in West Africa had people fearing the possibility of a ...

Emergent BioSolutions struggles with declining revenues, rising competition, and weak growth prospects. Read why I rate EBS ...

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

Among the viral pathogen families classed as high risk for both epidemics and pandemics are coronaviridae, which includes ...

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

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

The government of Sweden has announced new funding of $2 million (about Shs7.3 billion) for UNICEF to respond to the Sudan Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in Uganda.

The pill protected 80 per cent of the cynomolgus macaques and 100 per cent of the rhesus macaques, which are biologically ...