A shocking report has prompted more calls for the government to carry out urgent work to save lives before the summer holidays begin as data shows nine in ten drownings involving children could have been prevented

The recognition comes nearly eight years after Baguio began implementing its Smoke-Free Baguio Ordinance, one of the country's strictest anti-smoking and anti-vaping measures

Trials are beginning on several drugs that have shown promise in preliminary studies against the virus that is causing the current outbreak.

When pathologists cut open dead sloths from a planned Florida tourist attraction, they found a plethora of pathogens. Parasites, bacteria and viruses were all lurking in animals weakened by grueling international transport and stressful conditions at the warehouse that received them, according to necropsy records and a state inspection report obtained by Inside Climate News […]

As Ebola spreads through conflict-hit eastern Congo, health workers, churches and aid agencies are battling not only the deadly virus but also displacement, weak healthcare systems, misinformation and deep public mistrust.

World Food Safety Day is June 7, 2026

Every few years a number comes along that stops me cold, even after three decades of doing this work. This week, that number is 866 million.

That is how many people the World Health Organization estimates get sick from

The World Cup has added a layer of concern to the ongoing outbreak of Bundibugyo Ebola in Democratic Republic of Congo and neighboring Uganda.

U.S. health officials say they’re not worried about a major outbreak of Ebola, but they did announce a united effort with Canada and Mexico to make sure World Cup players and visitors are safe as the matches take place in multiple North American…

The Bundibugyo virus, the strain of Ebola currently circulating, has no approved treatment or vaccine

“To come here is to really show to the community that they’re not alone," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters at the airport late Thursday.

'A generation shaped by algorithms cannot simply outscroll nicotine marketing. I did not fully understand this until I was close to purchasing a vape.'

The timing of the report’s submission was strategically chosen to precede the annual World Health Assembly of the WHO in Geneva, aiming to initiate a debate on updating international health regulations.

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In past outbreaks, Americans exposed to the virus were sent home to be treated in state-of-the-art facilities. The Trump administration has already flown some U.S. citizens to Europe for treatment.

The head of the World Health Organization said on Monday that the fast-moving Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda was outpacing response efforts.

Secretary Teodoro Herbosa has been elected president of the World Health Assembly. His international exposure should translate to health reforms back home.

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is forcing health agencies to fund and staff a response before they know the full size of the epidemic, a dangerous gap in a region where conflict, mining traffic, informal healthcare, and cross-border movement can turn missed cases into new transmission chains. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom […]

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A previously undetected outbreak of the Bundibugyo variant of Ebola is currently spreading through parts of central Africa, and the United States is largely absent from the international effort to stop it. As detailed by The Guardian, the situation has escalated into a public health emergency of international concern, yet the US government has stepped back from the frontlines of global health…

WHO experts believe the first death was followed by a super-spreader event either at a funeral or a healthcare facility

Ebola is a highly contagious disease transmitted through contact with bodily fluids, which frequently causes fatal haemorrhagic fever, rapid multi-organ failure and internal or external bleeding

President Donald Trump said he is "certainly" worried about the Ebola outbreak as the US bans travellers from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda and South Sudan amid the highly contagious virus spreading across Africa

The Democratic Republic of Congo has been hit by an outbreak of Ebola. According to the African Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, the outbreak was discovered in the northeast of the African nation. It's not the first time that the country's citizens have had to endure the fear of contracting the deadly hemorrhagic fever: there have been 17 outbreaks, that we know of, since the virus was…

Early surveillance and testing failed to identify Bundibugyo, a rare species of Ebola responsible for the current outbreak.

The World Health Organization declared a global health emergency after about 80 people died from the virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

"... Far from being a fading priority or fake news, climate change poses an immediate and long-term threat ..."

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The agency warned that countries sharing land borders with the Democratic Republic of Congo are at high risk for further spread

The Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda under pressure from a rare strain of a deadly disease with no known vaccine.

Just a day after the outbreak was announced, cases were confirmed in the capitals of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. There is no approved vaccine for the strain.

The hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius set off alarms for a world still traumatized by Covid. For those on board, the danger was much closer.

Every year, hundreds of millions of people around the world suffer from workplace injuries or illnesses, and nearly 3 million die from job-related accidents or exposures. Climate change is making many jobs even more dangerous, exposing millions of workers to excessive heat and toxic wildfire smoke each year, yet the World Health Organization has not […]

We're being pushed into more conspiratorial thinking than the real conspiratorial situation warrants.

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Whenever a major news event breaks, the internet immediately starts combing through decades of The Simpsons to see if the show called it. This time, people are convinced the series predicted the hantavirus outbreak linked to the cruise ship MV Hondius. As highlighted by BroBible, the connection falls apart once you actually look at the episode in question.

The Andes virus is a strain of…