Dhaka’s air quality showed signs of improvement Thursday morning, due to overnight rainfall across the capital.  With an Air ...

Another 5.7 million children only have partial protection against preventable diseases, having not received all the recommended doses of certain vaccines.

Researchers warn that only DTP is on track to reach 90% global coverage by 2030, while measles and pneumococcal vaccines lag behind significantly.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has validated Senegal as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem. Senegal ...

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 experts point to conflict zones as threatening childhood vaccination efforts ...

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 ...

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 ...