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Health secretary earlier said outbreak was ‘not unusual’ but with first US measles death in decade steps up responseTwo days after initially downplaying the outbreak as “not unusual,” the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, on Friday said he reco…
Cats in two states tested positive after eating raw food from Wild Coast Raw, which issued voluntary recallAs the bird flu outbreak continues gaining force in the US, a second company selling raw pet food issued a voluntary recall after cats from two d…
USAid cuts to clinics dispensing antiretroviral drugs will be ‘death sentence for mothers and children’, expert warnsSweeping notices of termination of funding have been received by organisations working with HIV and Aids across Africa, with dire predi…
First US death reported in a decade as outbreak spreads in region where 14% of children are exempt from vaccinationThe unfolding crisis over the spread of measles in the US among communities where skepticism towards vaccines is running high has taken a…
The outbreak, first discovered in three children who ate a bat, has caused 431 cases and 53 deathsAn unknown illness first discovered in three children who ate a bat has killed more than 50 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) over the …
Epicenter of latest outbreak had one of state’s highest immunization exemption rates for 2023-24 school yearThe measles outbreak in Texas has grown to at least 90 cases, reaching historic levels, according to officials.Since late January, 90 cases of m…
As administration cuts off resources from African countries to contain outbreak, workers say ‘everybody’s lost’As the Trump administration dismantles the US Agency for International Development (USAid) and retreats from funding global public health eff…
The Tijuana River flows through Mexico and empties off California, carrying pathogens and chemicals and threatening public healthRaw sewage and runoff in the Tijuana River is exposing communities at the US-Mexico border to an unusual and noxious brew o…
Exclusive: Proliferation comes amid treatment shortage and poses major public health threat, say expertsDoctors are reporting a surge in scabies cases across the UK amid an acute shortage of treatments, and say the “nightmare” situation poses a major p…
Chief medical officer for England says ministers caused confusion by even debating the idea UK politics live – latest updatesHerd immunity was never government policy during the Covid pandemic and it was a major communications failure that some people …