The reproduction number R is often used as an indicator to predict how quickly an infectious disease will spread.

A new study analyzed data from 2.9 million individuals across 118 countries and found that consumption of sugar-sweetened ...

Amid fears of another global pandemic, social media users are circulating claims that all schools in China have been closed ...

China will deepen reforms of its disease control system and intensify capabilities in monitoring, detecting and handling ...

Hepatitis E, a potentially serious viral liver disease, is transmitted through contaminated water. The risk is particularly high in populations with limited access to safe water and sanitation. In ...

The Covid-19 outbreak in 2020 was on a scale not seen since the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918 and laid bare our lack of ...

A baby has died from whooping cough during the Christmas period, marking the first fatality since the national epidemic was ...

Cholera topped the list of disease outbreaks in Africa last year as a warming world increased both flooding and droughts in ...

Its primary aim, according to the UN, is to enhance global awareness, promote information sharing, and encourage best practices to prevent future epidemics. The US Centre for Disease Control and ...

Between 1916 and 1930, an epidemic of Sleeping Sickness swept the globe, killing over half a million people. Discover the ...

An eastern German region says it is lifting a ban on the transport of animals that was imposed last weekend after ...