The government of Yucatán and partners like WWF announce Herencia Maya, permanently conserving and managing more than 1.4 ...

Background Yaws is a chronic infectious disease that disproportionately affects under-reached communities. In 2023, Papua New ...

Targeted maternal screening could substantially reduce the spread of a virus associated with a rare and fatal malignancy that ...

The Andes hantavirus outbreak shows how easily disease labels are misunderstood — and why they describe patterns of spread, ...

A new study from Stanford University researchers paints a picture of a near-future where diseases, once eradicated in the country, could realistically return. “At current state-level vaccination rates ...

Could a measles outbreak in a Texas community deliberately avoiding the vaccine pose risks beyond the community’s borders? Not likely, says a local physician, as long as an area’s herd immunity is ...

More than a fifth of the Earth’s plant species are found only on islands, making them one of the largest biodiversity hotspots, a breakthrough global study has found. This conclusion has pushed the ...

ROCHESTER — More than four years after the spread of a novel coronavirus became a global pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention consider COVID-19 to be an endemic disease — one that ...

Across the United States, thousands of people with COVID-19 are being hospitalized each week and the number is steadily trending up — a sure sign that overall cases have also been on the rise. Levels ...

It may seem that the COVID pandemic has been in the rearview mirror for many months — but as recently as May 11, the government officially ended the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE). The ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — COVID-19 is here to stay. Three years after the first COVID-19 death in South Dakota, leaders with Sanford Health and Avera Health both acknowledged that while the illness ...