Tuberculosis, a bacterial infection usually found in the lungs, remains the world’s top infectious killer, causing 1.25 million deaths worldwide in 2023, according to the World Health ...

The funding, which was awarded during the COVID-19 pandemic, was to be used to track infectious diseases, provide mental health services, and support addiction treatment and other urgent health ...

Ebola, plague and bird flu have been added to a watchlist of 24 infectious diseases that could pose a future threat to public health, experts have said. Some viruses on the list have the potential ...

High vaccine coverage is needed to prevent outbreaks because the virus is so infectious: around nine in 10 unvaccinated people will catch it if exposed. It is the most infectious disease known to man.

The “drastic and abrupt” cuts have jeopardised progress toward stamping out TB – the world’s deadliest infectious disease – and could lead to a global resurgence, the World Health ...