The world needs to ask itself whether it has the collective capacity to detect, diagnose, alert, and contain the next emerging communicable disease

The WHO declared the recent monekypox outbreak a public health emergency, a decision that will empower the agency to take additional measures

The patient had previously received an oral polio vaccine, which are no longer administered in the United States

Botswana may be Africa's first country to stop mother-baby transmission as WHO hails "groundbreaking" fall in rates from 40 percent to 1 percent