Formerly known as monkeypox, mpox is a viral disease similar to smallpox that can cause flu-like symptoms and a painful rash. It is most commonly found in central and east Africa, with the chances of ...

The African Union's (AU) public health agency released an advisory Thursday noting that 5,842 cases of mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) had been recorded in 21 countries, with 38 deaths. The Centers ...

COVID-19 made its debut in December 2019 and has since caused the deaths of more than 7.1 million people, according to the World Health Organization. While pharmaceutical companies rushed to find a ...

What he didn’t know then was that the man, who ran a bar-come-brothel, was ‘patient zero’ in an outbreak of a new, more dangerous strain of mpox called clade 1b, which would trigger a global health ...

Bryony Cottam meets a doctor dedicated to combating malaria and other deadly diseases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

In the region's other developments, Sierra Leone reported more cases, with the first two linked to the clade 2 global strain.

WHO funds are spent on a range of global health projects—programs to eradicate polio, rapidly respond to health emergencies, improve access to vaccines and medicines, develop pandemic prevention ...

For di many executive orders wey e sign within hours of assuming di US presidency, Donald Trump don give signal say e wan ...

Global health law professor Lawrence Gostin explains the risks of the US withdrawal from the World Health Organization.

President Donald Trump littered a Wednesday interview on Fox News with many of the same false claims he made earlier in his first three days back in the White House.

Nearly 10 million malaria vaccine doses were delivered to Africa during the first year of routine immunisation being rolled ...

A new study shows that the disparity between the life expectancies of different populations has nearly doubled since 2000.