By: Jacqueline Powers Image: Illustrator: Alissa Eckert On November 10, 2025, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) announced that Canada has lost its measles elimination
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By: Jacqueline Powers Image by Birdies100; CC BY-SA 2.0 On September 3, 2025, California, Oregon, and Washington announced the West Coast Health Alliance, a partnership
Image: NIH Image Gallery; CC BY-NC 2.0 At the end of October 2024, an outbreak of an unknown pathogen emerged in the Panzi health zone
Image: uu yersinia pestis; CC BY 2.0 Deed In the 14th century, the plague, also known as the “Black Death,” killed over 25 million people
Image by: Ryszard, CC BY-NC 2.0 DEED With cases of babesiosis increasing in the United States over the past decade, this lesser-known tick-borne disease has
Image by: Image by: Shawn Carpenter; CC BY-SA 2.0 DEED The 2024 Olympics have begun, and more than 10 million people are expected to be
Image courtesy of NIAID and CDC; CC-BY 2.0 DEED The recent rise in highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5 cases among humans, poultry, and dairy
Image by: NIAID; CC BY 2.0 DEED Japan has been facing an increase in cases of streptococcal toxic shock syndrome in recent months.1 Streptococcal toxic
Image by: Oli; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 DEED Avian influenza, also known as bird flu, is a highly contagious and deadly disease that primarily infects birds.
Image courtesy of NIAID; CC-BY 2.0 DEED Mpox, previously known as monkeypox, was discovered in 1958 and is caused by the monkeypox virus. Mpox spreads