global health

The international group coordinating emergency vaccines recommends administering one dose instead of two to combat the “dire shortage” of cholera vaccines worldwide.

Pregnant mosquito females deploy the microbe Elizabethkingia to speed larval growth; the larvae, in turn, help the bacteria outcompete other strains.

The organization implored nations to wait on booster shots until the global vaccination rate increases, but several of the world’s more well-off countries have expressed their intentions to offer them regardless.

The researchers found thousands of species not previously documented.

Chelsea Wood, a University of Washington parasitologist and this month’s Scientist to Watch, gives an overview of her research on schistosomiasis in Africa.

The coronavirus pandemic is exposing the underlying biological dangers of being a minority in the US.

An early-stage, blood-based assay shows potential as a method for sorting patients with suspected TB from those with other respiratory illnesses.

The number of measles cases this year is already more than all of the cases reported in 2018.

Author and researcher Peter Hotez explains the campaign to combat neglected tropical diseases.

A woman told police in July that Frieden groped her in his Brooklyn apartment in October 2017.

The position was eliminated the same week a new Ebola outbreak was declared in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Pregnant and lactating women are particularly vulnerable to the disease.

More than 100,000 cases of the bacterial disease have been reported in the war torn country.

Hans Rosling of the Karolinska Institute has passed away at age 68.

Intellectual property theft, gun violence, scientific failure, and more

The World Health Organization announces three final candidates for the agency’s top position. 

More than 400,000 people—including 125,000 children—die from foodborne illness every year, according to the World Health Organization.

Just a quarter of countries have an action plan in place to address antibiotic resistance, according to a survey by the World Health Organization.

A new report from the World Health Organization finds that tuberculosis has infected hundreds of thousands more people around the world than was estimated a year ago.