Dr. Theopista Masenge was at the hospital in Mbeya, Tanzania, rolling out new treatments for children with high HIV viral loads when she got the call: Stop work, now.

One in 60 adults in the tiny Pacific nation of less than a million people are living with the virus.

Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.

Measles Virus Outbreak, Texas, USA

Two new malaria cases have been registered this week near Frankfurt airport, two months after cases first emerged.

This is Tampa Bay’s first fatality from the tropical disease in almost a century.

Most of those hospitalized have neuroinvasive disease, because the sickest people tend to seek out care, health officials say.

A bacterial infection is wiping out Florida's citrus trees. Growers hope a rootstock developed with gene-editing technology could keep the disease at bay.

A cow on a farm in southwest Livingston County has tested positive for rabies, prompting two farmers who were exposed to undergo preventative treatment, according to the Livingston County Department o...

Surging drug use has contributed to an epidemic in the Pacific island nation, where one in 60 adults is estimated to be living with the virus.

A fourth person has died of measles-related complications in Pennsylvania, the state's health department announced Tuesday.

Current chatbots aren’t likely to help lone actors invent a deadly pathogen, experts say. But newer models, trained in biology, may need stronger safeguards.

A 40-year-old woman who lived in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, has died from measles complications, the county coroner confirmed Sunday. It’s the third measles-associated death in a fast-growing out...

The case is the third reported death linked to a rapidly expanding outbreak that has sickened more than 670 people in the state.

The new nation of Turkmenistan, one of several Central Asian republics that rose from the Soviet Union's ashes, is ruled by a 64-year-old dictator named Saparmurad A.

The strain lurking in the inflatable structure was hypervirulent.

International agencies and foreign donors have long driven campaigns to defeat diseases like Ebola. Dr. Jean Kaseya, the head of the Africa C.D.C., wants to change that.

Chickens – which can test positive for viruses but cannot spread them – an ideal early warning system for mosquito-borne disease

The alert comes less than two weeks after baby goats at a North Carolina petting zoo tested positive for rabies. Shots for the disease must be administered before symptoms start.

A recall has been issued for nearly 1,513 pounds imported ready-to-eat pork products due to possible listeria.

Large studies link GLP-1 drugs like semaglutide and tirzepatide to substantially lower rates of tuberculosis, infection-related hospitalizations and mortality in diabetes patients. Real-world evidence...

Strengthened case finding, contact tracing, and isolation averted most deaths even without vaccination. Once these operations were strong, reactive ring vaccination added a modest further benefit, whe...

A lot is riding on the shiny green backs of large red-eyed sterile flies that scientists from the United States, Mexico and Panama have been raising.

LANCASTER — For Hilda Smucker, the signs that her daughter was sickened with measles came soon after she arrived from camp. It started with tiny...

Local health departments in North Carolina have evaluated hundreds of people for rabies after they interacted with baby goats that were part of a mobile petting zoo, according to the state Department ...

The 6-week-old died Aug. 18 at home, after being in palliative care at home soon after birth, Lancaster County coroner Stephen Diamantoni said.

Officials at the Office of Minority Health told grantees that they’re prioritizing “root causes” of infertility and promoting exercise.

UKHSA finds invasive Aedes aegypti breeding in east London, prompting enhanced surveillance.

Six Ebola checkpoints in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo stopped reporting last month because the people staffing them hadn’t been paid.

H5 bird flu has now been detected across Tasmania, with vaccination efforts for captive orange-bellied parrots, which are critically endangered, getting underway.

A second child diagnosed with measles has died in Lancaster County, according to Coroner Stephen Diamantoni. “Just today, we received a report of another child who died with measles, and we&rsqu...

While several coffin makers in Bunia said they were providing a public service, the virus has put them at the center of a debate around safe burials.

RFK Jr, the health secretary, has suggested the deaths were ‘fabricated’ while the CDC claimed it was reviewing them

From eggs and jalapenos to dog food, granola and pet turtles – it seems like you can catch a Salmonella infection from just about anything these days.

The shots have been approved for people 65 and older, and for younger people with underlying conditions. Others may be able to get them off label.