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Robert F Kennedy Jr, the US secretary of health and human services, defended his response to the largest measles outbreak in the US in 33 years…

New York City has declared the deadly legionnaires’ disease outbreak in central Harlem over, nearly three weeks since it began.On Friday, city health officials announced that…

August 22, 20252 min readHeat and Rain Can Help Predict When Dengue Will SurgeA new analysis uncovers seasonal patterns of dengue, a mosquito-borne disease, across the…

The measles outbreak in Texas has officially ended, but as cases continue to be detected in other parts of the US state health experts are warning…

On Monday Texas health officials said the state’s massive measles outbreak, which killed two unvaccinated children, had come to an end.It’s the close of the largest…

ToplineA measles outbreak that exploded in West Texas at the start of the year is over, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services, marking…

Rachel Feltman: Happy Monday, listeners! For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Let’s kick off the week with a quick roundup of some of the…

The “worst cholera outbreak in years” has killed at least 40 people in the last week in Sudan, according to the medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières.Overwhelmed…

August 10, 20253 min readHow the New Chikungunya Virus Outbreak in China Could Reach the U.S.Experts say the painful infection, spread to people from mosquitoes, can…

Two people have died and at least 58 have been sickened amid an outbreak of legionnaires’ disease in the Harlem area of New York City, according…