The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has sounded the alarm over a steep rise in public health ...

The disease is treatable and is also preventable through vaccination. “Currently, no confirmed diphtheria cases involving ...

The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Africa CDC has raised alarm over a sharp rise in public health emergencies across the continen ...

The recent Diphtheria outbreak has caused the City of Cape Town’s Health Department to appeal to parents to prioritise their ...

I showed why quarantine of healthy people is a fool’s errand and on 29 June 2024 I called for a global conference on the ...

My mother, Alice Trumbull Scoville Barry, was born in 1911 to Sam Scoville, a Philadelphia lawyer, and his wife, Katy. The ...

US President-elect Donald Trump's nomination of vaccine conspiracist Robert F Kennedy, Jr, as his new administration's Health and Human Services (HHS) cabinet secretary has alarmed many public health ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported a 'staggering' 20-percent rise in measles cases globally in 2023 ...

The mission of the Department of Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control at the Johns Hopkins Hospital is to support the institution's tripartite mission of research, teaching, and patient care; ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that there were nearly 6,000 ... There are four vaccines available for tetanus, including one for tetanus only (tetanus toxoid, or TT), ...

Whooping cough is annoying, but tolerable, for most adults. But for infants, the disease can be serious, even deadly.

Efforts to stop the spread of infectious disease have always suffered from a cycle of panic and neglect. Vaccine skepticism ...