However, infectious diseases that were hitherto under control are re-emerging globally and the pathogens of these diseases are highly resistant to known antibiotics.

Current tuberculosis infection tests struggle to detect the disease in those with HIV. A common co-infection, HIV can hide TB ...

The study noted persisting outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases, including the U.S. measles outbreaks this year reaching ...

The world has made unprecedented progress in vaccinating children against life-threatening diseases since WHO established the ...

The USA has one of the highest rates of incarceration in the world. Shelves of books and reams of media exposés have revealed the inhumanity of American jails, prisons, and immigration detention ...

By phasing out a committee that was a cornerstone of infection prevention in the U.S., the Trump administration is ...

Cancer patients say they’ve grown sicker since Argentina’s radical libertarian President Javier Milei took his chainsaw to ...

Argentina used to have an extensive, free public health system that pretty much ensured that everybody who couldn't afford private insurance was covered for everything.

Texas officials have notified local public health departments to brace for another $119 million in federal cuts at the end of ...

Erin Corriveau: Tuberculosis is something that a lot of our public health laws actually protect. And so outbreaks of TB don’t happen very commonly anymore in the United States. Mwangi: But she ...

Public health is not optional — it is the foundation of a functioning, thriving society. Jack Gruber USA Today Network Kansas is facing the largest tuberculosis outbreak in the U.S. since the ...