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New COVID-19 cases are popping up globally, as at least 40 Olympic athletes in Paris have tested positive for COVID-19 or other respiratory illnesses.

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The global health body says virus could spread even beyond Gaza if violence does not end to enable immunisation push.

The head of the World Health Organization says he will convene an expert group to determine if the increasing spread of the mpox virus in Africa warrants being declared a global emergency

Displaced mothers share how they try to help their children cope with sweltering, unsanitary conditions.

A new Covid-19 variant, KP.3.1.1, is becoming dominant in the US

Nearly a quarter of adolescent girls between the ages of 15 and 19 who have been in a relationship will have suffered intimate partner violence by the time they turn 20. This is one of the findings of the World Health Organization’s first detailed analysis of intimate partner violence among…

Congenital syphilis is preventable, but nonetheless, the disease is on the rise in countries like Australia and the U.S.

A drug-resistant bacterium that causes severe infections has been spreading globally, and it's now in at least 16 countries, the WHO warns.

Two in three Londoners have reported their homes are ‘unbearably hot’ as demand for air conditioning rises

Data just published online shows a worrying increase in infectious syphilis cases in women living in Australia aged 15–44 (referred to as “reproductive age”) and a subsequent rise in transmission from pregnant parent to child. This is called congenital syphilis.