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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

The emergence of more infectious COVID-19 subvariants has triggered mass quarantines

The rage at the failure and corruption of a ruling elite is matched by generosity and ingenuity to prevent complete collapse and anarchy

The latest round of aid aims to address the acute budget deficit caused by the ongoing Russian invasion

The omicron subvariant is tuned to evade immunity, even from previous omicron infections

Europe burns as a heatwave causes fatalities, breaks temperature records, and feeds ferocious wildfires

The pandemic disrupted regular health services or triggered misinformation about vaccines, according to WHO and UNICEF

Parechovirus can cause seizures and severe illness, especially in the youngest babies

A grassroots effort is offering mental health care to Ukrainians who’ve experienced sexual violence at the hands of Russian forces