Sign up to our Evening Headlines email for your daily guide to the latest news Sign up to our free US Evening Headlines email What started as a common bacterial infection ended in death for fifteen children infected with Strep A in Britain. Health authorities have issued a dire warning to parents in the UK … Read more
Image: Shutterstock (Shutterstock) A new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers some good and bad news about the country’s ongoing monkeypox outbreak. New cases are slowing down, likely thanks to a combination of vaccination and education efforts. But it’s also likely that the virus won’t be eradicated here and will … Read more
Almost 48million birds have been culled this year across Europe due to the biggest ever avian flu outbreak. The highly contagious virus — which experts fear could jump to humans and trigger another pandemic — usually dies out in the summer. Yet this year, avian influenza has persisted all-year round. Government advisers have called the … Read more
Both Covid and flu could surge this winter causing a dreaded ‘twindemic’, experts fear — with some southern states already feeling the early stages of an influenza resurgence. The flu was largely wiped out over the past two years of the pandemic when lockdowns, working from home and the far more transmissible coronavirus limited its … Read more
Enlarge / A Pakistani health worker administers polio vaccine drops to a child during a vaccination campaign in Karachi on December 10, 2018. Pakistan is one of only two countries in the world where polio remains endemic. The United States, one of the world’s richest and most developed countries, has met the World Health organization’s … Read more
But the recent death of a Los Angeles County resident — the first attributed to monkeypox in the US — is a tragic reminder that the outbreak is ongoing and still poses risks. “There is some hope around these cases leveling off. That should not be anybody’s solace that this outbreak is done,” David Harvey, … Read more
Experts say that the outbreak of monkeypox could have been avoided. PEOPLE.com Skip to content top navigation close this dialog window Explore PEOPLE.com close this dialog window share and more close this dialog window view image Monkeypox outbreak could have been avoided had virus been a ‘potential problem for decades’, expert says This link is … Read more