The Pan American Health Organization released a factsheet on regional coverage in light of the WHO’s report, showing ...

A mummy in Egypt has yielded a shocking discovery: the DNA of the plague bacterium Yersinia pestis—thousands of years before ...

Septicemic plague occurs if bubonic plague is left untreated, or it can occur directly if the disease enters the bloodstream.

As record wildfires erupt across Canada this year, with health-threatening smoke drifting into the U.S. and as far away as ...

An estimated 14.3 million children globally remain completely unvaccinated, according to a new report, and public health ...

The patient had the pneumonic plague, the rarest and deadliest form of the disease. Human cases remain very uncommon in the ...

Most African states severed diplomatic ties with Israel following the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Today, the Jewish state has just ...

The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) is hereby transmitting the report of the fourth meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) Emergency Committee (Committee) ...

An Arizona resident has died from pneumonic plague, a rare but highly dangerous lung infection, Coconino County health ...

A person has died of the pneumonic plague at the Flagstaff Medical Center in Arizona, according to Northern Arizona Healthcare, the organization that runs the hospital. The patient arrived at the ...

Ending USAID could lead to the deaths of 14 million people over the next five years, an analysis from a medical journal predicts.