As record wildfires erupt across Canada this year, with health-threatening smoke drifting into the U.S. and as far away as ...

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An estimated 14.3 million children globally remain unvaccinated and vulnerable to vaccine-preventable illnesses – meaning ...

The patient had the pneumonic plague, the rarest and deadliest form of the disease. Human cases remain very uncommon in the ...

Most African states severed diplomatic ties with Israel following the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Today, the Jewish state has just ...

The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) is hereby transmitting the report of the fourth meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) Emergency Committee (Committee) ...

A person has died of the pneumonic plague at the Flagstaff Medical Center in Arizona, according to Northern Arizona Healthcare, the organization that runs the hospital. The patient arrived at the ...

Ending USAID could lead to the deaths of 14 million people over the next five years, an analysis from a medical journal predicts.

Pneumonic plague is both “the least common and most dangerous type of plague,” according to the Cleveland Clinic.

Dr. Kiame Mahaniah, undersecretary of health in the office since April 2023, will take over as the agency’s secretary on ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has validated Burundi as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem, making it ...