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A map of acute respiratory illness levels across the US. Source With the arrival of spring, respiratory illness season is beginning to...

In late February, a school-aged child in Texas died from measles, marking the United States's first fatality from the virus in a decade....

The measles virus In the United States, the year 2020 had the lowest number of measles cases reported—only 19 cases—but that decrease...

Cows killed by H5N1 in California, where the deadly virus has spread to hundreds of farms and at least 27 people. Source On an ordinary...

On September 27, 2024, Rwanda reported its first case of Marburg Hemorrhagic Fever, a lethal Ebola-like virus, setting off alarms in the...

EEE is a life-threatening viral disease carried by mosquitoes. Source When Americans experience viral outbreaks, they often do so through...

Since it first appeared in dairy cows in the American South in early 2024, H5N1 bird flu has hopscotched across the nation. While the...

Update: Mpox is now a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. Less than two years after the World Health Organization (WHO)...

We are in the midst of another COVID wave. At the Paris Olympics, masks have made a return as athletes fall ill. In the United States,...

Recent months have seen a global rebound of cholera, a dreaded bacterial disease that can kill within hours. The World Health...

There is no doubt that tensions have been rising between the world’s great powers in recent years, an issue only accelerated by the...

Earlier last month, United States Surgeon-General Vivek Murthy declared gun violence a public health crisis. To bring gun deaths under...

A closer look at five diseases making headlines this summer To view this article as an instagram post, click here H5N1: is cow flu the...

The Pakistani port city of Karachi has been battered by extreme temperatures this week. Source Since temperatures in Karachi, Pakistan...

Nine years ago, Brazilian health authorities reported the country’s first cases of a rare but mild viral infection called Zika. At first,...

Since its emergence in 2019, COVID-19 has caused one of the most destructive pandemics in history. Excess deaths alone are estimated to...

In 2021, when excess deaths from COVID-19 reached an all-time high, countries everywhere called on the World Health Organization (WHO) to...

For a more recent update on this topic, see here . What began as a drop in milk production in Texan dairy herds has become an epidemic...

At the end of April 2024, images appeared on social media showing Chinese virologist Zhang Yongzhen sleeping outside his lab in protest....

In May 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared its first post-COVID Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC)....