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Global Cholera Deaths Climb as Major Outbreaks Continue in 4 African Nations

Global cholera deaths have reached 4,738 this year, a 46% increase from last year’s total, according to a new ...

AUGUST 29, 2025

Global Mpox Cases Near 30,000

Global confirmed mpox cases have hit 29,715, according to data compiled by the WHO.

JULY 25, 2025

New WHO HIV Guidelines Recommend Lenacapavir for PrEP, Rapid HIV Tests

Lenacapavir should be one choice available for people to take as PrEP for HIV, according to new guidelines released ...

JULY 14, 2025

WHO Publishes First Meningitis Guidelines

Despite effective treatments and vaccines against some forms of meningitis, an estimated 2.5 million cases were ...

MAY 5, 2025

CROI Chair Calls Disruption of HIV Services ‘Cataclysmic and Cruel’

CROI 2025 is taking place during a tumultuous period for the scientific community here and abroad, according to ...

MARCH 10, 2025

Public Health Experts Criticize WHO Withdrawal

Leaders in public health and infectious disease expressed alarm at the Trump administration’s decision to ...

JANUARY 22, 2025

New Numbers Show Oropouche Virus Cases Increasing

More than 3,500 new cases of Oropouche virus have been recorded globally in just shy of five months, according to a ...

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Mystery Flu-Like Illness Kills At Least 79 in DRC

An unknown flu-like illness has killed at least 79 people in a remote section of the Democratic Republic of the ...

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Rwanda Reports First Cases of Marburg—26 People Affected

Twenty-six people in Rwanda have become ill with Marburg virus, the first time the disease has been reported in ...

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Mpox Outbreak Declared Public Health Emergency of International Concern

The upsurge of mpox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and a growing number of countries in Africa constitutes ...

AUGUST 16, 2024

Chad Eliminates Human African Trypanosomiasis as a Public Health Problem

Chad eliminated the gambiense form of human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) as a public health problem, and is the ...

JULY 16, 2024

New WHO Guidance Aims to Reduce Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infections

WHO published the first global guidelines to prevent the occurrence of bloodstream and other infections caused by ...

MAY 29, 2024

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