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In Brazil, wildfires have roared across the Pantanal, a maze of rivers, forests and marshlands that sprawl over an area 20 times the size of the Everg

The UNRWA calls Israel's strategy of promoting alleged misinformation "destructive"

The virus spread by mosquitoes is rare, but serious: about 30% of people with the virus die, and many survivors have ongoing neurological problems

The plan for mpox, covering the six-month period from September 2024 to February 2025, provides a framework for public health preparedness

The case is a 66-year-old man confirmed as having mpox who had transited in a Middle Eastern country before arriving in Thailand

The mpox outbreak puts pressure on the eastern region already struggling with a lack of medicines and an ongoing armed rebellion

The first hours of prime-time speeches set the tone for Democrats to blast GOP attacks on abortion rights across the country

Amid a burgeoning mpox crisis, African health officials are drawing attention to the growing burden of AMR

The threshold for survival in heat is lower than thought—researchers are using state-of-the-art climate chambers to explore blistering conditions

The White House unveiled the fruits of months of negotiations: new, lower Medicare prices for 10 blockbuster drugs

The epidemic is concentrated in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but the virus has now appeared in a dozen other African countries

A similar scenario has played out in hundreds of other rural communities across, where hospitals have faced closure over the past 40 years