Edna Bonhomme, author of "A History of the World in Six Plagues," details how pandemics are about more than viruses ...

Wahab stated the partnership aims to build the capacity of informal food and water vendors and waste workers in the flood-affected Lagos environment to prevent an outbreak of cholera.

The decision comes after a detailed inspection uncovered multiple serious public health hazards that pose a direct threat to both traders and the general public. City Manager Abala Wanga stated ...

Every year on April 25, World Malaria Day reminds us of a disease that, while now largely preventable and treatable, once claimed millions of lives, particularly in India. Between 1800 and 1921 alone, ...

JEFFERSON, Ohio (WJW) – An entire school district is closed on Friday because of a rash outbreak. According to the superintendent of Jefferson Area Local School District, they made the decision ...

Infection can lead to severe consequences, including death. (Getty/iStock) Outbreaks of dengue have been declared in the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico over the last year. A public health ...

Alberta's measles outbreak is now the worst recorded in nearly three decades and that has health experts raising the alarm and renewing calls for stronger messaging from the provincial government.

Suspected Cholera outbreak has claimed lives of two person in Okemini area, Ogbaga road in Ebonyi local government Area of Ebonyi state. There was panic as residents of the area fled their homes ...

She recalls what it was like to treat patients during Zambia’s worst cholera epidemic last year. “We had no option but to source nurses from other wards. Even midwives ended up being recruited ...

Texas has surpassed 600 confirmed measles cases in total since the disease was first reported in West Texas in late January, as part of the ongoing outbreak, reaching 646 cases by the end of the week.

With one-fifth of states seeing active measles outbreaks, the U.S. is nearing 900 cases, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC’s confirmed measles case count ...

XENIA TOWNSHIP, Ohio (WKRC) - Human remains were discovered beneath a rural Ohio home on Tuesday. According to WKEF, a homeowner and contractor made a shocking discovery beneath the porch of an ...