The National Orientation Agency has launched a more focused campaign to prevent the spread of infectious diseases across Nigeria.This was contained in a statement signed by the Deputy Director of ...

Wildlife officials say avian flu has been detected in wild birds in Maine, elevating the risk status of the disease in our ...

Health officials in western Texas are trying to contain a measles outbreak among mostly school-aged children, with at least 15 confirmed cases. It's the latest outbreak of a disease that had been ...

The effects of climate change, ecosystem dynamics, and disease ecology on global biodiversity and public health form a ...

Fighting between Rwanda-backed rebels and the Congolese army has placed millions of people at high risk of death from the ...

Without proper treatment, tooth infections can spread to other areas of the body, leading to serious and potentially life threatening complications. A tooth infection, or a tooth abscess ...

Treatment depends on the type of STI. HIV has other routes of transmission. For example, this STI can spread through the use of unsterilized drug needles as well as sexual contact. STIs can affect ...

It also warned that displacement had increased the risk of the spread of diseases like mpox, cholera and measles. (Reporting by Emma Farge, editing by Thomas Escritt) ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency has donated a state-of-the-art CT Scan machine to the Institute of Kidney Diseases (IKD) in Peshawar – bringing relief for patients in the city. The hospital was in need ...

Crohn's disease is part of a group of conditions known as inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs). There are five main types of Crohn's disease, each with its own set of symptoms. Doctors define each ...

An infected person may spread Ebola disease to others, which causes an outbreak. An outbreak might be limited to a specific small area, or it might spread to a large geographic area. This was the case ...