On December 18, a San Diego emergency room nurse was given a shot of the Covid-19 vaccine. A week later, he tested positive for the virus, CNN affilia...
A Nigerian yellow fever outbreak detected early last month is worsening and causing many cases and deaths across five of the country’s 36 states. ...
The director-general of the World Health Organization, Tedros Ghebreyesus, warns the COVID-19 pandemic is threatening decades of progress against infe...
The World Health Organization (WHO) warned Friday the COVID-19 pandemic’s restrictions and demands on resources have stifled immunization programs, ...
One of the more puzzling aspects of the novel coronavirus is just how many organ systems are impacted through the course of the disease. We've heard a...
The World Health Organization reported Friday that the total number of COVID-19 cases worldwide doubled over the past six weeks. At his regular bri...
Five people, including a 15-year-old girl, have died of Ebola in a fresh outbreak of the virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations...
The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 could become endemic like HIV, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday, warning against any attempt to pr...
As countries lie frozen in lockdown and billions of people lose their livelihoods, public figures are teasing a breakthrough that would mark the end o...
The U.N. Children’s Fund warns that COVID-19 mitigation measures are preventing the shipment of vaccines to dozens of developing countries, putting ...
Before entering the cave, the small team of scientists pull on hazmat suits, face masks and thick gloves to cover every inch of their skin. Contact wi...
As the need for widespread Covid-19 testing grows, officials are looking to flush out hidden cases of the virus by examining sewage. Groups of scie...
An Ebola flare-up in eastern Congo may spread again after a patient escaped from a clinic, complicating efforts to contain the disease that has infect...
Eighteen months might sound like a long time, but in vaccine years, it's a blink. That's the long end of the Trump administration's time window for...
A Washington state man in his 50s with underlying health issues became the United States’ first fatality from the coronavirus, officials said on Sat...
Stepping up the fight pneumonia could avert nearly 9 million child deaths from pneumonia and other major diseases, a new report has found. Accordin...
The Philippines stood firm Tuesday on its ban on the world's first dengue vaccine while declaring a nationwide epidemic from the mosquito-borne diseas...
The United States recorded 60 new measles cases last week, taking confirmed cases for the year to 940, the worst outbreak since 1994 and since measles...
Maine could soon prohibit parents from citing religious or personal beliefs to avoid vaccinating their children, making the U.S. state one of a half d...
More than 1,000 students and staff members at two Los Angeles universities were quarantined on campus or sent home this week in one of the most sweepi...