disease

How the Widal test is clouding India’s sense of its typhoid problem | Explained

More often than not, the experience for patients with a fever is to get tested and treated for a typ...

science | 5 months ago

TB: gene editing could add new power to a 100-year-old vaccine

Tuberculosis dates back more than 9,000 years. It is the most infectious bacterial disease and in 20...

science | 2 months ago

Sweden reports first case of deadly mpox strain outside Africa

Sweden on Thursday (August 15, 2024) announced the first case outside Africa of the more dangerous v...

world | 2 months ago

Cholera outbreak in Sudan has killed at least 22 people, says Health Minister

Sudan has been stricken by a cholera outbreak that has killed nearly two dozen people and sickened h...

world | 1 month ago

Mpox: Philippines says new case 'not' deadly variant

“The first mpox case reported by Philippines this year is a mild variant and not the deadly strain s...

world | 1 month ago

A gold mining town in Congo has become an mpox hot spot as a new strain spreads

Slumped on the ground over a mound of dirt, Divine Wisoba pulled weeds from her daughter’s grave. Th...

world | 3 weeks ago

Rwanda reports 8 deaths linked to Ebola-like Marburg virus days after it declared an outbreak

Rwanda says eight people have died so far from the Ebola-like and highly contagious Marburg virus, j...

world | 2 weeks ago