Popular disease names like “swine flu” and “Spanish Flu” are too “stigmatizing,” according to the World Health Organization, and in the future all disease names should be carefully designed not to ...
A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups ...
Mpox is the name of the disease caused by Orthopoxvirus monkeypox, a relative of smallpox and cowpox that has exploded to global prominence in recent years. In 2022 and 2024, the spread of mpox caused ...
The World Health Organization retired the name "monkeypox" in favor of mpox — since the virus is spread by rodents and small ...