India has launched AMR 2.0, a national action plan for 2025-2029 to combat antibiotic misuse in human and animal health. The ...

Health authorities in Washington state have confirmed the world’s first known human infection and death from the H5N5 strain ...

The person, who had been hospitalized in King County since early November, died on Nov. 21, health officials said.

Nigeria is leading Africa in reported diphtheria cases, with 8,587 confirmed infections and 884 deaths between January 1 and November 2, 2025, The PUNCH reports.This is according to the latest data ...

Minister of Health and Welfare Shih Chung-liang (石崇良) yesterday urged people to avoid contact with poultry or wild birds when traveling abroad, in response to the first reported human death from ...

HPV vaccines aim to prevent the types of HPV infections that sometimes cause cancers and anogenital warts. The HPV vaccines do not work as well in people that have already been exposed to HPV, so most ...

The U.S. flu season is starting slowly, and it’s not clear if it will be as bad as last winter’s. But some health experts are ...

A man in Washington state is believed to be the first human to die from a rare strain of bird flu. If you would like to customise your choices, click ' Manage privacy settings '.

People in Guernsey have been urged to get their flu jab as soon as possible. Dr Nicola Brink, director of Public Health, said ...

A Washington resident is believed to be the first person to die from a rare strain of bird flu, but state health officials said Friday that the risk to the public is low. The per ...

New technologies tend to dominate headlines in modern medicine, but infection-control experts warn that basic, overlooked ...

The resurgence of whooping cough has no single cause. Instead, several problems are occurring at once: falling vaccine ...