In August 2024, the World Health Organization declared a second "Public Health Emergency of International Concern" for mpox.

The virus, spread by ticks, can cause a disease that leads to swelling of the brain and permanent health problems in half of severe cases.

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Negotiations are ongoing in New York to agree the latest UN political declaration on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and ...

Scientists say they captured 3D images of a new organelle they're calling a "hemifusome," which may be a recycling center in ...

In the shadows of Python Cave, Uganda, a leopard leaps from a guano mound—formed by bat excrement—and sinks its teeth into a ...

The newly discovered 20 new bat viruses, include close relatives of deadly henipaviruses, raising global public health ...

Johns Hopkins Hospital tests its federally designated biocontainment unit in an era of reduced public health funding.