The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has confirmed a Lassa fever case with a travel history to the United Kingdom.The Director General of the NCDC, Dr Jide Idris, in a public ...

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The current measles vaccine was developed in 1968 after the original was created in 1963. It is the only measles vaccine used in the U.S. It is usually combined with mumps and rubella (MMR) or mumps, ...

Five years after the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic, there has been progress — and backsliding in the ...

According to healthychildren.org, childhood vaccines consistently remain at very high and beneficial levels of safety and efficacy.

Half of the newly reported cases are in Gaines County, about 80 miles southwest of Lubbock, which has been the epicenter of ...

All life on Earth can be traced back to a Last Universal Common Ancestor, or LUCA—and it likely lived on Earth only 400 million years after its formation.

As outbreaks for several diseases are being monitored across the U.S., state DPH Commissioner Robbie Goldstein has an update on the ongoing public health initiatives in Massachusetts.

The pandemic left the state with a variety of tools to help conquer public health challenges. However, experts are concerned about the gaps in federal leadership for future crises.

The pandemic accelerated economic disparity, revealing a disturbing acceptance of mass death. Did we learn nothing?

On March 13, 2020, just hours before the event and after a tumultuous uncertain fight week, Bellator 241 became a COVID-19 ...

If you want to learn how to prevent a measles outbreak like the one currently in Texas, our country's secretary of health isn't the best source.