The Makati City government has launched a measles catch-up vaccination campaign targeting nearly 10,000 children, aged 9 to ...

Senator Joel Villanueva has called for an investigation into the PHP11.18 billion worth of expired and unused drugs and ...

The Department of Health (DOH) 1 (Ilocos Region) has reported a 90 percent to 97 percent success rate in tuberculosis (TB) treatment across the region's four provinces. Citing DOH-1 data, Regional ...

LUBBOCK, Texas—A child who wasn’t vaccinated died in a measles outbreak in rural West Texas, state officials said Wednesday, the first U.S. death from the highly contagious—but preventable—respiratory ...

Mpox is a rare infectious disease. It is usually a mild disease that most people recover from within a few weeks, but some may develop complications. Initial symptoms of mpox include fever ...

Mpox remains an international public health emergency, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Feb 27 (2025). This was after the international health agency decided the epidemic still merits ...

SAO PAULO, March 7 (Reuters) - Brazil's Sao Paulo state confirmed on Friday a case of the new mpox strain, the first case of clade Ib mpox in the region, it said in a statement. The strain was ...

“The high transmittance rate of the clade 1a Mpox variant is likely due to mutations the virus has picked up – exactly how these impact transmission isn’t currently clear and more research ...

Experts have sounded the alarm over a mutation of the mpox virus that is said to be 'highly transmissible'. The dangerous new strain has been identified in the Democratic Republic of Congo ...

Emergent BioSolutions, one of only three companies with a vaccine for mpox, has agreed to donate 50,000 doses of its shot for use in the current outbreak concentrated in central Africa ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Supreme Court (SC) has ordered the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to allow Chito Balintay, a member of the Indigenous Peoples of Zambales, to run for governor in the ...