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Discussion of a “pandemic treaty” is setting off alarm bells for the global misinformation-industrial complex

Health officials have little clue where people caught the monkeypox virus

The infection marks the second imported case of wild poliovirus in southern Africa this year, following an outbreak in Malawi in mid-February

“There is too much heat and if we won’t work, what will we eat?"

Four actions leaders need to consider to reduce animal-human virus transmission risk

A national lockdown was ordered after a subvariant of omicron was detected in the capital city Pyongyang

"Health, life, and safety research constitutes nothing more than desk theories, unless we properly grasp the situation occurring on the ground"

Summer hasn't arrived yet, but early heat waves have brought the country to a standstill

Norway's biggest city is charting a path forward for the world

Mortality data meet our moral duty to those who died and their families but are also of practical use to explain variation in infection spread

The deputy director of the National Prison Project at the ACLU called the findings "shocking"

With time and effort, the United States can build enough protection to blunt surges, but herd immunity remains out of reach