A mummy in Egypt has yielded a shocking discovery: the DNA of the plague bacterium Yersinia pestis—thousands of years before ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has validated Senegal as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem. Senegal ...

The WHO and UNICEF have warned that widespread misinformation and severe international aid cuts are widening coverage gaps, ...

Septicemic plague occurs if bubonic plague is left untreated, or it can occur directly if the disease enters the bloodstream.

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

An estimated 14.3 million children globally remain completely unvaccinated, according to a new report, and public health ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has validated Burundi as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem, making it the eighth country in WHO’s African Region to reach this important ...

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

Humanitarians in Sudan, where a three-year civil war has made assistance increasingly difficult, warn that a vacuum left by ...