He faces investigation for his ties to paramilitary gangs

Polls have closed in Brazil's tight presidental election between President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Flávio Bolsonaro.

Nearly 159 million people to head to polls on Sunday in battle between leftwing incumbent and Flávio Bolsonaro

Bird flu viruses are a particular threat to humans because they can replicate at temperatures higher than a typical fever, one of the body's ways of stopping viruses in their tracks, according to new ...

Student List movement projected to have 138 seats in the new parliament, well clear of the 126 required for majority, to Vučić’s 104

Vaccination remains one of the most effective public health interventions ever developed. The success of vaccination programmes has prevented millions of deaths worldwide and dramatically reduced the ...

The process included a gala featuring medical students doing aerial yoga and singing Taylor Swift to donors’ families. In some ways, it was absolutely perfect

Schools, strains and surprising rises

Bundibugyo virus is now driving the largest Ebola outbreak that the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has ever faced. As of Sept 30, 2026, DRC has reported 8224 confirmed cases, including 3982 de...

Hepatitis B study in Guinea-Bissau that was to be funded by CDC and that drew global backlash ‘will not move forward’

Bereaved families call the report a "devastating account" of Covid failings and say the government's promise to protect care homes was a "cruel lie".

Between late 2023 and mid-2025, Latin America had an Oropouche virus outbreak of unprecedented geographic distribution and burden exceeding 25 000 reported cases. Case reports describing probable vert...

Podcast-Folge · Pandemia · 11. Oktober · 53 Min.

Oropouche virus infection during pregnancy is associated with severe maternal and infant outcomes, including maternal haemorrhage, fetal loss, and infant CNS abnormalities.

Berlin secured concessions on combustion engines and Paris on limiting partners’ access to ‘Made in Europe’

Acute infections can leave durable biological imprints that alter host physiology, chronic disease susceptibility, long-term health and even biological ageing, well after pathogen clearance. Vaccines ...

Proposals currently out for consultation would substantially reverse the protections recommended by the Leng review, argue Martin McKee and colleagues In July 2025, amid growing concern that a relat...

The ongoing 2026 outbreak of Bundibugyo virus (BDBV) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is currently the second largest Orthoebolavirus outbreak globally, with confirmed cases exceeding 6000, a c...

MIT engineers developed lipid nanoparticles that deliver mRNA to program natural killer (NK) cells inside the body. These CAR NK cells could be used to treat T cell cancers or autoimmune disorders cau...

Helen Branswell, STAT's infectious disease reporter who earned the respect of experts and public health officials with her accessible, prescient dispatches, has died at age 69.

Ken McCallum says Kremlin attempted to influence vote through social media and TV reports but had little impact

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a new research initiative at the National Institutes of Health to study vaccine injuries on Monday, according to people familiar wit...

The study also distinguishes between feeling fatigued and becoming progressively less able to maintain performance post-COVID.

Flu arrives to Pacific states; COVID wave seen in US, England, and Europe; Neuro-Long COVID and HHV-7; a 5th Pennsylvania measles death; Plague lab accident in Siberia; and much more.

Health authorities in Siberia’s Irkutsk region have placed nearly 200 people under medical observation after a laboratory worker died from plague, according to media reports and a statement by a regio...

Communications Medicine - Functional antibody responses and protection against symptomatic dengue

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