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A parasitologist with the Sleeping Sickness programme, and an entomologist from the National Sleeping Sickness Program Entomologist, Guinea, dissect a tsetse fly outside of the Dubreka laboratory.

How a country wiped out sleeping sickness - the disease where a deadly drug is the cure

World February 23, 2025 By Luke Alsford

US President Donald Trump signs executive orders during the inaugural parade inside Capital One Arena, in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP) (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump's most radical executive orders - from WHO withdrawal to January 6 pardons

US January 21, 2025 By Katie Boyden

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Xinhua/Shutterstock (14638338c) A child caught mpox gets treatment at a hospital in the Nyiragongo territory near Goma, North Kivu province, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), on Aug. 15, 2024. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared Wednesday mpox a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC), sounding the alarm over its potential for further international transmission. WHO's declaration came after the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) declared the ongoing mpox outbreak a public health emergency for the continent. Dr Congo North Kivu Nyiragongo Mpox Treatment - 15 Aug 2024

Mystery Disease X kills dozens — scientists extremely concerned over flu-like illness

World December 7, 2024 By Sarah Hooper

Student dies from highly dangerous incurable virus

Tech September 16, 2024 By Jen Mills

This colorized electron microscope image provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in 2024 shows Mpox virus particles, green, found within infected cultured cells, blue. The virus particles are in various stages of maturity, which accounts for differences in shape. (NIAID via AP)

Mpox is spreading in a prison — here's everything you need to know

US September 4, 2024 By Jessica Kwong

A colorized transmission electron micrograph of monkeypox particles (red) found within an infected cell (blue), cultured in the laboratory

Another country confirms case of new dangerous mpox variant

World August 22, 2024 By Jasper King

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Could farms be the breeding ground for another pandemic?

US August 22, 2024 By Jessica Kwong

A Liberian-flagged cargo ship is anchored.

Ship quarantined after crew member shows mpox symptoms

UK August 21, 2024 By olivia-woosey

A boy receives treatment for mpox.

Expert gives verdict on likelihood of mpox lockdown in the UK

UK August 21, 2024 By Jasper King

A child caught mpox gets treatment at a hospital in the Nyiragongo territory near Goma, North Kivu province, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)

Ministers meet to discuss UK plan for mpox

UK August 20, 2024 By Jasper King

LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 23: A man receives a vaccination dose against monkeypox on July 23, 2022 in London, England. The NHS is expanding its monkeypox vaccine rollout in London as monkeypox cases continue to increase in the capital. Monkeypox, a rare disease, is part of the same family of viruses as smallpox. (Photo by Hollie Adams/Getty Images)

UK 'should've been more prepared for mpox' amid warning it 'may be here'

UK August 16, 2024 By Brooke Davies

A child caught mpox gets treatment.

Mpox map shows every country affected by new variant

World August 21, 2024 By Tom Sanders

LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 23: A man receives a vaccination dose against monkeypox on July 23, 2022 in London, England. The NHS is expanding its monkeypox vaccine rollout in London as monkeypox cases continue to increase in the capital. Monkeypox, a rare disease, is part of the same family of viruses as smallpox. (Photo by Hollie Adams/Getty Images)

How do you catch Mpox?

World August 19, 2024 By Sarah Hooper

Christian Musema, a laboratory nurse, takes a sample from a child declared a suspected case Mpox.

Mpox has mutated and has been upgraded to a 'global health emergency'

World August 15, 2024 By Jasper King

WHO calls emergency meeting over mpox

Monkeypox could be declared a global emergency after WHO calls urgent meeting

World August 8, 2024 By Tom Sanders

A tick on a human's skin

Man dies after contracting lethal 'bleeding eyes' disease from tick bite in Spain

World July 29, 2024 By Gergana Krasteva

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What do we know about deadly H5N2 bird flu strain never seen before in humans?

World June 7, 2024 By Tom Sanders

World's deadliest virus leaves victims in a 'ghost-like' state – and there's no cure

World March 21, 2024 By Freya Graham

Close up of brown and white pet fancy rat yawning, showing teeth and large tongue.

Outbreak of deadly 'rat virus' that causes bleeding eyes in humans kills 85

World March 1, 2024 By Danny Rigg

Young Asian handsome man scientist adjust focus and use Microscope to looking biochemical cell in laboratory. Doctor and scientist work in laboratory pandemic of corona virus, COVID19 concept

What is Disease X? What we know about the 'next pandemic'

World February 14, 2024 By Freya Graham

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