First malaria vaccine approved by World Health Organization ~health medicine Article 1046 words 16 votes
A new, infectious coronavirus is detected in Malaysia – and it's coming from dogs ~health Article 976 words 8 votes
How New York City vaccinated six million people in less than a month ~humanities.history Article 2222 words 8 votes
Team behind Oxford Covid jab start final stage of malaria vaccine trials ~science medicine Article 383 words 7 votes
Researchers say they have found the world's earliest confirmed case of smallpox, revealing the disease was widespread across northern Europe during the Viking age ~humanities.history Article 683 words 3 votes
Smallpox and the long road to eradication ~science medicine Article 722 words, published Nov 12 2019 6 votes
Warnings of worsening hunger, malaria emerge as coronavirus cases spike 40% in Africa ~health Article 10 votes
How one man poisoned a city’s water supply (and saved millions of children’s lives in the process) ~health Article 1693 words, published Feb 12 2015 11 votes
Why measles deaths are surging — and coronavirus could make it worse ~health Article 1927 words 7 votes
Coronavirus FAQ’s by Dr. Megan Murray (Harvard Infectious Disease specialist) ~health Article 6404 words 8 votes
More than 140,000 people died from measles in 2018 as cases surged globally, amidst devastating outbreaks in all regions ~health Article 1397 words 8 votes
Denmark completes contentious fence along German border – the fence is meant to prevent wild boar from spreading swine fever to Denmark's lucrative pork industry ~enviro Article 696 words, published Nov 30 2019 7 votes
An update on the global measles situation based on information shared by World Health Organization member states ~health Article 1337 words 5 votes
Slaying the speckled monster - The history of smallpox and the origins of vaccines ~science medicine Article 6746 words 6 votes
Surge of measles cases results in Albania, Czechia, Greece and the United Kingdom losing their measles elimination status ~health Article 242 words 8 votes
The message of measles - As public-health officials confront the largest outbreak in the US in decades, they’ve been fighting as much against dangerous ideas as they have against the disease ~health medicine Article 8361 words 9 votes
Origins of the current outbreak of multidrug-resistant malaria in southeast Asia: a retrospective genetic study ~science medicine Link 4 votes
Lyme disease cases are exploding. And it’s only going to get worse. ~health Article 4210 words 8 votes
Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Ebola outbreak cases have doubled in just two months crossing the 2,000-mark ~health Article 412 words 6 votes
Hong Kong to cull 4,700 pigs after second swine fever case found ~news hong kong Article 273 words 10 votes
Vietnam culled a further 500,000 pigs over the past two weeks to tackle an outbreak of African swine fever, taking the total killed so far to 1.7 million ~food Article 284 words 8 votes
Viruses to stop cholera infections – the viral enemy of deadly bacteria could be humanity’s friend ~science medicine Article 1000 words 5 votes
Amid measles outbreaks, states consider revoking religious vaccine exemptions ~health Article 904 words 14 votes
Ebola death toll in Congo to pass 1,000, World Health Organization warns ~health Article 756 words 8 votes
Malaria is among the world’s biggest killers of children. Now there’s a vaccine. ~health medicine Article 1053 words 5 votes
New York’s Orthodox Jewish community is battling measles outbreaks. Vaccine deniers are to blame. ~health Article 2105 words, published Nov 9 2018 8 votes
Why Doctors Without Borders is suspending work in the Ebola epicenter in Congo ~health Article 998 words 9 votes
Shock rise in global measles outbreaks 'disastrous' for children, UN warns ~health Article 531 words 8 votes
Raw milk drinkers in nineteen states at risk of rare, dangerous infectious disease ~food drinks Article 683 words 10 votes
Russian trolls promoted anti-vaccination propaganda that may have caused measles outbreak, researcher claims ~health Article 398 words 7 votes
Measles cases at highest for twenty years in Europe, as anti-vaccine movement grows ~health Article 1184 words 13 votes