Much is unclear about the tragedy, but plague researchers say there is “zero” chance of an epidemic

New analysis refutes James Watson’s claim he was first to recognize significance of famed photograph 51

New research on 58,319 infection records finds the geography of emerging disease tracks healthcare access more than deforestation or climate change

In recent weeks, two outbreaks captured international attention: a hantavirus cluster linked to a cruise ship and an escalating outbreak of Bundibugyo ebolavirus in Central and Eastern Africa. How the...

A personal history of plastics, written by a plastic-maker’s daughter turned environmental sociologist who, for the past decade, has searched for t...

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Humans have always incorporated wildlife into processes of work, capture, and exchange. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, globalization became the ...

CEPI funding will advance vaccine candidates towards clinical trials as quickly as possible.

Past outbreaks spawned clever strategies for testing antivirals and antibodies, but researchers will still face major challenges on the ground

How two historians helped reveal the industrial origins of modern disease

Africa CDC says restrictions could increase public health risks and highlight ‘deeper structural injustice’ in global health

Hundreds of cases reported in the DRC after USAID has been dismantled and key scientific research canceled

Led by Dr Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva, the Wellcome Trust-funded project (2025-2030) ‘How Did Infectious Diseases Become Wild? Plague, Yellow Fever, and Disease Ecology in the Brazilian Hinterland (1920-1975)” explores how, historically, infectious diseases became associated to wild animals in rural and natural settings. The project focuses on Brazil, a country that was pitted against an unprecedented sanitary phenomenon between 1920 and 1975: the wild diseases.

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A passenger helped manage the outbreak after the ship’s doctor on the MV Hondius fell ill.

Past studies of Andes virus offer scant evidence on transmission risks, and have sparked debate

Backed by the Trump administration, US mining firms, financiers, and tech investors are mounting an aggressive push into the DRC’s mineral sector, reviving an old imperial logic under the language of ...

Questions about the culprit virus and its route of spread remain as health officials make plans for stranded passengers

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Far from signaling a break from the past, the convergence of mining and conservation in West Africa underscores a recurring pattern that stretches back to colonialism.

Paradoxically, conservation efforts in Liberia and Senegal are threatening native ecology.