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US dodged a bird flu pandemic in 1957 thanks to eggs and dumb luck

With a new strain spreading fast, will Americans get lucky again?

November 15, 2024 Child Health / Global Health / Measles / Vaccines

Measles cases surge worldwide, infecting 10.3 million people in 2023

An estimated 107,500 people, mostly children younger than 5 years of age, died due to measles in 2023.

September 3, 2024 Global Health / Infectious Disease / Newborn and Infant Health / Polio / Vaccines

How did polio reemerge in Gaza after a quarter of a century? Q&A with a virologist

We asked a virologist to explain how the virus emerged in the region after all this time, and how it will be dealt with._

August 14, 2024 Global Health / Infectious Disease / Vaccines

Mpox cases are soaring in Africa – what must be done to prevent a global pandemic

Alarmed by the surge in mpox cases, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has taken the unprecedented step of declaring the outbreak sweeping through African countries a continental public health emergency. The World Health Organization (WHO) is also meeting to decide whether to trigger its highest global alert level over the epidemic.

June 12, 2024 Global Health / Infectious Disease / Public Health

How the Paris Olympics could become a super-spreader event for dengue

Visitors from more than 200 countries are expected in France for the Olympics. Many of those countries are already experiencing dengue this year.

762px Malaria Parasite Connecting to Human Red Blood Cell

October 4, 2023 Global Health / Infectious Disease / Malaria / Vaccines

‘We could eradicate malaria by 2040’ says expert after revolutionary vaccine is approved by WHO

Malaria is very high on the list of diseases we want to eradicate. I don’t think it’s going to happen in five years or 10 years, but it should happen in something like 15 years. So 2040 would be a reasonable target.

June 7, 2023 Environment / Environmental Health / Global Health

Climate Crisis Is on Track to Push One-Third of Humanity Out of Its Most Livable Environment

Climate change is remapping where humans can exist on the planet. As optimum conditions shift away from the equator and toward the poles, more than 600 million people have already been stranded outside of a crucial environmental niche that scientists say best supports life. By late this century 3 to 6 billion people, or between a third and a half of humanity, could be trapped outside of that zone, facing extreme heat, food scarcity and higher death rates, unless emissions are sharply curtailed or mass migration is accommodated.

February 24, 2023 Global Health / Sexually Transmitted Disease

Science Falls Behind as Syphilis Stages Another Comeback

Despite being one of the oldest known sexually transmitted infections, with possible origins in the 14th century — as well as intense public health initiatives over the past many decades — syphilis receives little attention from researchers.

January 9, 2023 Coronavirus / COVID / Global Health / Vaccines

China’s COVID situation is dire – but it shouldn’t pose a big risk to other countries

In contrast to China at the outset of this wave, most countries by now have high immunity and protection against severe disease and death from COVID. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control has noted that China’s surge “is not expected to impact the COVID-19 epidemiological situation” in Europe.