Comment from Auckland University: As hospitals face a severe flu season, Dr Heather Battles explores how history and family memories shape vaccine choices

Democratic Republic ​of Congo's ‌confirmed Ebola cases rose ​above ​4,000 for the ⁠first ​time in ​its current outbreak, government data ​showed.

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A native kāhu (swamp harrier) found in the Wairarapa has become the second bird in New Zealand confirmed to have H5 bird flu.

As a new Ebola outbreak takes hold in DRC, and misinformation spreads, here's how media can help

Academics are cautiously welcoming the move but the Association of Scientists wants more detail and the Tertiary Education Union says a bigger problem is the size of the fund which has not increased for several years.

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Health minister Mark Butler says vaccines are being rushed into NT communities, with one suspected death

Officials and experts in Argentina are scrambling to figure out if their country is the source of a deadly hantavirus outbreak that has gripped an Atlantic cruise.

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Kiwi scientists share how funding cuts have impacted their research and careers, in a new report from the Save Science Coalition. Many of the profiled researchers have been made redundant or have moved...

'Some nerd sitting in an office' doesn't seem like exciting research to fund but it's answering urgent questions about severe weather, a climate scientist says.

Respondents across the political spectrum endorsed the idea in a recent Talbot Mills Research survey, commissioned by advocacy group Dental For All.

Many mpox patients affected during the 2022 outbreak may have experienced physical effects more than a year later, a new study published Monday finds.

Alice Wong platformed and uplifted people with Long COVID in her final chapter as a lifelong disability advocate and storyteller.

Canada has formally lost its measles elimination status, the country’s public health agency announced, triggering the loss of that status throughout all of the Americas.

The World Health Organisation has warned New Zealand to urgently close the "alarming gaps" in measles immunisation for the most at-risk communities.

Immunisation Advisory Centre senior adviser Mamaeroa David warns waiting times at hospitals are 3-4 weeks.

Three new cases of measles have been reported in the Manawatū and Nelson today, including two children.

The Marsden Fund is among three contestable funds to lose millions to help set up the new Institute for Advanced Technology.

Polio is in the news, with vaccination under threat and recent outbreaks. This makes Alan Marshall’s classic disability memoir more relevant than ever.

Philippa Nicole Barr, Uncertainty and Emotion in the 1900 Sydney Plague (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024), pp. 71, £17.00, paperback, ISBN: 9781108821063. - Volume 69 Issue 2

Chimpanzees are running around with grass in their ears and butts at the Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage in Zambia. This is the second time a bizarre fad-like behavior has gripped the sanctuary's chimps...

Orcas were spotted using kelp as a grooming tool on each other, the first known use of tools among cetaceans for something other than hunting prey.

The traditional Census will be replaced with a combination of government data and smaller annual surveys.