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The women walked miles through the dusty streets of Maiduguri, in the northeastern corner of Nigeria, carrying their emaciated children. At 7 am, they began lining up to wait, for hours, to be handed...

Early in the monkeypox outbreak, a man in his 20s arrived at an emergency department in Northern California, tiny blisters on his lips, hands and back. Within 12 hours, doctors diagnosed him with...

At the beginning of this year, there was a thrum of excitement among global health experts: Eradication of polio, a centuries-old foe that has paralysed legions of children around the globe, seemed...

A convoy of five vans snaked slowly from the battered Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, towards Chernihiv, in the northeast of the country. On board were generators, clothes, fuel — and medications needed to...