Deadly mpox variant Clade 1b spreads in Europe amid rush for vaccines - Mpox cases continue to rise in parts of Africa, three ...

Lynn RuitersSOUTH Africa is facing a sharp rise in measles cases, leaving thousands of children vulnerable as declining vaccination coverage creates gaps the virus can exploit. Multiple outbreaks have ...

An anti-migrant group called Operation Dudula is blocking foreigners from public health clinics in South Africa.

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At least nine people in Ethiopia have been infected with Marburg virus, a deadly illness similar to Ebola, the World Health Organization said.

A new COP30 report finds that rising temperatures, extreme weather, evolving pathogens and climate-driven migration are ...

There are several variants, or clades, of HIV in circulation. The most widely-circulating variant, HIV-1 Clade C, accounts ...

In the absence of a vaccine, injectable antibodies are currently being tested as a way to prevent HIV infection ...

Witches’ Broom, a devastating fungal disease, has spread for the first time from Southeast Asia to Latin America, arriving in French Guiana in 2023 and has now infiltrated northern Brazil. Cassava is ...

The specific CD36 gene variant linked to DCM was found in 17% of those with African ancestry, but less than 0.1% of those with European ancestry, a difference that the researchers speculate may be due ...

6 October 2025 - Last month, UN DESA’s Economic Analysis and Policy Division hosted the fourth session of its Development Policy Seminar Series on the World Economic Situation and Prospects. The ...