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As Alberta's measles outbreaks grow, researchers are watching the province's wastewater for the highly contagious virus and ...
Lubbock County in Texas has been free of measles cases for more than 50 days. But Katherine Wells, director of the Lubbock Health Department, is staying vigilant.
Lawrence O. Gostin discusses the importance of equity and science in the face of threats to global health security.
United Nations officials warn that if the funding isn’t replaced, it could lead to more than four million AIDS-related deaths ...
WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus emphasised the life-saving power of vaccines, stating, “It’s encouraging to see an increase in children vaccinated, but we still have much work to do. “Cuts ...
In 2024, 89% of infants worldwide—approximately 115 million—received at least one dose of a diphtheria, tetanus, and ...
It’s time to return to the kind of bottom-up struggle that helped establish modern public health in the first place.
Republicans’ severe cuts to health care funding in the domestic spending and tax cut bill just passed by Congress has raised ...
Bullish on their success, the global public health enterprise turned to another threat: polio. Eliminating polio would require not only widespread vaccination but also widespread laboratory capacity ...
UNICEF estimates that around 2.1 million children under the age of one, roughly 24 per cent, remain zero-dose, receiving no ...
WHO & UNICEF data shows global childhood vaccination coverage holds steady, yet over 14 million infants remain unvaccinated: Geneva Wednesday, July 16, 2025, 17:00 Hrs [IST] In 20 ...
A new report by the World Health Organisation and the United Nations Children's Fund has shown that 14.3 million children ...