Whether they do so for food, or simply the humans are in the wrong place at the wrong time, these are the animals that eat the most humans annually.

Even as the very thought of a contagion that might be spreading globally drives panic, border closures, and lockdowns, there ...

UK MHRA introduces additional restrictions for use of the Chikungunya vaccine, Ixchiq: United Kingdom Friday, February 13, 2026, 10:00 Hrs [IST] The Medicines and Healthcare produ ...

Clear proof that isolation was the remedy There are a number of proofs (apart from Haygarth’s experiment and Leicester) that it was isolation, not ring vaccination, that eradicated smallpox. First, we ...

Background: Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) is a rare demyelinating disease of the central nervous system usually ...

Gavi, the global organization that finances and distributes vaccines in poorer countries, finds itself in a funding standoff with the United States. But this issue is not America's reworking of the ...

During 2024, the number of pandemic-prone and epidemic-prone disease outbreaks worldwide was estimated at 301. The data highlight a shift in disease outbreak patterns, with a decline in the number of ...

Human activity continues to expand ever further into wild areas, throwing ecology out of balance. But what begins as an environmental issue often evolves into a human problem. Researchers at UC Santa ...

SINGAPORE - New migrant workers arriving in Singapore from West Bengal in India must undergo daily temperature checks, under stepped-up measures to prevent the spread of the Nipah virus. They must ...

Preliminary probe suggests that viral Hepatitis and a possible water contamination were behind the deaths, however, a ...

Because measles is so contagious, experts say that vaccination rates need to be above about 95 percent to stem the spread of ...

The present outbreak of the Nipah virus infection in West Bengal, India, is the latest of a series of flare-ups of the frequently fatal, fruit-bat–spread zoonotic disease. Nipah (Henipavirus nipahense ...