The blight that destroyed potato crops in the late 1840s reduced the island’s population by almost one-quarter. For nearly two centuries, historians with an Irish-nationalist bent have explained ...

For more than a decade, I have worked as a physician and public-health expert responding to infectious diseases around the world. In 2014, while treating Ebola patients in Guinea, I contracted and ...

The second prelim was a clinic from Blight, again from the outside of the front row. He bolted early and had half a lap on the field when the race went yellow mid-distance. Blight made light work ...

At least 1,318 people have exhibited symptoms and 53 have died, the WHO said. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is closely monitoring an unknown disease that has killed dozens in ...

This led to a lack of access to vaccines and a clear, early decrease in rates of vaccination,” Dr. Richard Martinello chief medical officer and professor of infectious diseases at Yale Medicine ...

Key diseases to watch include H5N1 Bird Flu, Measles, Polio, Mpox, an unnamed illness in Congo, and Guillain-Barré Syndrome. “The COVID-19 crisis may have passed, but a harsh lesson remains ...

A mysterious viral disease has emerged in parts of western Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in recent weeks, resulting in at least 53 deaths, officials say. According to the World Health ...