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The COVID-19 pandemic has drawn attention to the far-reaching social implications of emerging infectious diseases, bringing ...
Emergency vaccination during outbreaks of diseases like cholera, Ebola and measles have over the past quarter-century reduced ...
Emergency vaccination during outbreaks of diseases like cholera, Ebola and measles have over the past quarter-century reduced ...
Emergency vaccination programmes – rolled out in response to outbreaks of five major diseases – are believed to have reduced deaths by around 60% over a period of 23 years, according to a new study, ...
The vaccine roll-outs seem to have had an impressive impact, reducing deaths by nearly 60%. The number of overall cases of ...
The charts below compare the increase in measles cases across a select set of states reporting the largest outbreaks in 2025. The cumulative state curves show the total number of measles cases ...
A wildly contagious virus that poses a particular risk to children, measles was once considered a disease of the past in the ...
The newly discovered 20 new bat viruses, include close relatives of deadly henipaviruses, raising global public health concerns about potential zoonotic spillover and future outbreaks.
Sligo man exits the crisis-hit World Health Organisation after decades of fighting deadly diseases in some of the most dangerous places ...