An international team of researchers has demonstrated that the tetravalent dengue vaccine Qdenga provides significant protection against the disease under real-world conditions, during the large 2024 ...

GENEVA (Reuters) -The World Health Organization issued an urgent call for action on Tuesday to prevent a repeat of an epidemic of the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus that swept the globe two decades ...

The movement of people can also spread pathogens to new regions. Different countries need to co-ordinate a response as ...

Yellow fever is a dangerous mosquito-borne virus that, for hundreds of years, has caused sporadic, deadly outbreaks in the tropics of South America, Central America, and Africa. According to a new ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Globally, measles is on the rise across the U.S., Canada, Mexico, South America and parts of Europe. In 2025, North and South America saw 11 times more cases than during the same ...

A 2023 outbreak of measles in Morocco, now labeled an epidemic, has become the worst since the 1980s, infecting 25,000 people and killing 120. Plummeting vaccination rates and failure to meet the ...

In Holguín, health officials have acknowledged a significant breakdown in preventive measures against the Aedes aegypti ...

On Monday, the Cuban government reported the deaths of 33 individuals due to mosquito-borne diseases, amidst a challenging ...

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Measles is one of the most infectious diseases on the planet. Kateryna Kon/Science Photo Library via Getty Images From 2000 to 2010, less than 100 measles cases were reported each year in the U.S.