In 1796, Edward Jenner scratched a lesion of a milkmaid. He injected the material (pus) into an eight-year-old and then exposed the boy to smallpox, a highly infectious disease. The child remained ...

The measles virus attacks long-lived immune cells, reducing antibody-mediated protection from other infectious diseases and ...

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) is looking into the potential of using artificial intelligence (AI) to help detect and investigate foodborne illness ...

A quarantine official controls access to a beef cattle farm in the town of Yeongam, South Jeolla Province, southwestern South ...

As the state prepares to give an update on Tuesday on whether the measles outbreak has infected more Texans. More people have ...

On August 13, 2024, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) declared the multi-country mpox ...

The measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico is now close to 300 cases. Most are unvaccinated children. People usually ...

Measles is caused by a highly contagious virus that’s airborne and spreads easily when an infected person breathes, sneezes or coughs. It is preventable through vaccines, and had been considered ...

The measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico has reached nearly 300 cases, with doctors warning that the disease can bring ...

New research this month shows that the experimental antiviral obeldesivir prevented up to 100% of deaths in monkeys infected ...

So far, 2025 is the fourth-worst year for measles in the U.S. since the disease was declared eliminated in 2000.

One measles case has been confirmed in Michigan already, but officials in northern Michigan say low vaccination rates in some ...