GENEVA: Years of negotiations culminated early Wednesday with countries agreeing the text of a landmark accord on how to tackle future pande...

ATLANTA (AP) — A key vaccine advisory committee met for the first time under new U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a leading voic...

Experts say an accord has become even more crucial with new health threats, ranging from H5N1 bird flu to measles, mpox and Ebola.

The only thing worse than the painful death of a child is the easily preventable painful death of a child.Already, as a result of the Tr...

All previous mpox cases in the UK were found in someone who travelled to an affected country or knew someone who had

A FRESH case of the mutant strain of mpox has been detected in England in a person with no travel history or links to other cases.The ne...

The modified vaccinia Ankara-Bavarian Nordic vaccine, originally approved for smallpox, is safe and well tolerated in at-risk individuals, w...

What are the biggest threats to the health security of the American people? There are some strong candidates. Avian influenza is spreading i...

A test tube labelled "Mpox virus positive" is held in this illustration taken on August 20, 2024. — ReutersKARACHI: Following the detection...

Pakistan reported its first mpox case of 2025 in Karachi, marking the city's first confirmed instance of the virus. The patient, a 28-year-o...

Concurring with the advice unanimously expressed by the Committee during the meeting, the WHO Director-General determined that the upsurge o...

CHICAGO — The patient wasn’t initially worried when she first caught COVID-19. Fully vaccinated and relatively healthy at the age of 41, Jo...

GENEVA (AP) — Trump administration freezes on U.S. foreign aid have led many United Nations organizations to cut staff, budgets and services...

Early in my career as a pediatrician, it would not be unusual to get a phone call in the middle of the night from the worried parent of a ch...

The outbreak has killed at least 50 people, Reuters has reported A disease outbreak in nor...